Little bit I could find was: Cooper was a station on the Chicago, Pekin, & Southwestern RR. First settled in 1872. Had a post office from 1878-1904. Discontinued as a settlement on April 30, 1904. Log Cabin Station was a station on the Illinois Traction System (Interurban). Hope this helps, Mike Dickson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al & Cheri Salz" <asalz@mchsi.com> To: <ILTAZEWE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 7:12 AM Subject: RE: [ILTAZEWE] Cooper Station & Log Cabin Station > Cooper Station is and was a spot along the train tracks between Morton > and Washington. I believe there is a grain elevator there. > Cheri > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark and Denise [mailto:nesser@bwsys.net] > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 7:02 AM > To: ILTAZEWE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILTAZEWE] Cooper Station & Log Cabin Station > > Lee, I went to Morton Library on Monday during my lunch break and had > the research librarian look up Cooper Station. There really wasn't > anything there, just a mention or two as a land mark for directional > purposes. I took a quick look at the Tazewell Co. History book, another > dead end. > > I plan on running over to Washington today. I will check their library > for Cooper Station inf. What I would like to find is an old picture of > whatever this Cooper Station was, or reference of the start of a small > town that never took off. > Dianne, I will keep my eyes open for this Log Cabin Station also. > Always Curious, Denise > > > > > > ==== ILTAZEWE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the TAZEWELL List if you are in mail mode, send to > ILTAZEWE-L-request@Rootsweb.com. If you are receiving messages in the > digest mode, send to ILTAZEWE-D-request@Rootsweb.com > > > > > ==== ILTAZEWE Mailing List ==== > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >