Howdy, Thank you Jon and Trev for your input on the Mantua question. I can't find where I saw it, I thought it was the 1818 census when Illinois became a state. I do remember it had to do with Reuben Walden. It seems there were 2 shifts north and south, one in 1818, the other after 1854. The one in 1818 moved the line to the north (??) maybe 3 1/2 miles. Maybe all of Omaha township was in White Co. in 1817. Then the later one like Jon said about 1/2 mile to the south with a jog around the town of New Haven. The link below is to a Library of Congress Map of Illinois dated 1861, but is called 1854 Railroad and county map. It's nice. It shows the surveyor's township system (grid) and if you look. It shows 2 1/2 sections (north and south) in White, and 3 1/2 sections in Gallatin. You can zoom in and out on line, but the map is also downloadable. However it is 28 meg. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?gmd:5:./temp/~ammem_5NZX::@@@mdb=aep,h h,gmd,gmd,gmd,gmd,pan,gmd Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Musgrave <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 12:42 PM Subject: [ILGALLAT] Boundary Line Dispute > Hello, > > The boundary change in question regarding the north boundary of Saline and Gallatin Counties actually affected very little territory. Previous to the change, the northern boundary ran as an east-west line through Boone's Mill in New Haven on the Little Wabash. This line paid no attention to the section and township lines laid by the original surveyors. Years later, when the mill had faded away until it was simply a memory, the General Assembly cleaned up the issue by moving the boundary line to the next section line to the north which also divided the Township 7 South in half. The move was less than a mile, not five miles as in the book. > > As to Mantua Township in White County, I've seen it on some very early maps (or someplace). Check out Peck's Gazetteer of Illinois, or one of the other early travel gazetteers. I believe Mantua is listed. That's all I know. It doesn't show up in the book Illinois Place Names, but it did exist as a settlement around the time Illinois became a state or in the 1820s. > > Jon Musgrave > www.IllinoisHistory.com > > >