Thank you, Ron. You are definitely right about it being a post office. I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that if it was a post office it was also a town. Perhaps the post offices at that time (1840-1850) were in settlements, not towns, or just in one of the scattered private homes sort of like a pony express station. And yes, the Kibbe museum did have a display of postmarks, and they may be able to tell me a lot more, so I will check there soon. Thanks again. Robert On Sat, 1 May 2004 20:46:35 -0500 "Ron Bryant" <[email protected]> writes: > I think it was the name of an early post office. This can be > verified at > the Kibbe museum. > > Ron . . . > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert L Webb" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > > > > Hi, friends, > > Does anyone know where Dekalb was located in Hancock Co.? Was > it an > > earlier name for an existing town? > > Robert > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > Hancock County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/ > Rock Island County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/ > > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!