I was fooling around on the USGenWeb site for Pike, IL yesterday (www.rootsweb.com/~ilpike) and stumbled across the exact location of my great-great grandfather Benjamin B. Powers' land there.-- Pittsfield (township 5S), range 4W, sections 29 and 32. Evidently his land was on the border of sections 29 and 32, sort of overlapping them. My trusty DeLorme Illinois atlas shows this as about on the southern dogleg of a road called "1300 N" between U.S. Route 54 on the west side and what looks like a branch of Six Mile Creek on the east side. In Pittsfield township (not the village). What is "1300 N" called? A street? A road? A route? And, are there any neighbors to this place out there? My Benjamin Powers lived there from 1834 to 1852. He is not in the on-line index to the 1880 "History of Pike County," so that's a dead end. Just thought I'd ask if anyone knows who his neighbors were, 1834-1852. My Ben liked to do carpentry and milling. Is the blue line described above really Six Mile Creek? Could a mill have been built there (about where "1300 N" crosses it)? Some of Ben's kids were born in Pittsfield, some in Atlas. The above land is near the Atlas/Pittsfield town line. Could that town line have moved, 1834-1852, or did Ben move? And especially, who were the neighbors? Twp 5S, range 4W, straddling sections 29 and 32. Lester Powers lesterps@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.