This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Wg.2ADE/3868.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Lynnea, this comes from a book entitled "People's History of Quincy & Adams Co., Il.", published in the early 1970s. "Along the Norfolk & Western Railroad (previously the Wabash) which runs through the northeastern part of the township(Houston), a town was organized in the 1880s. A store & depot were built, and also a post office. Soon after a grain elevator was erected and ever since large quantities of wheat, corn and soybeans are loaded here. The elevator is all that is left of the town which was named after B.I.Chatten of Quncy. (The spelling is now Chatton)" There's also a list of county officials which contains a B.J. Chatten--not sure if this is a misread name or a different person. Anyway, he was a county surveyor from 1851 to 1861. Thought the part about the town was interesting. Libby