The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Samuel W. Allerton was a wealthy landowner in Vermilion County who had made his fortune on the agricultural and livestock markets. He was one of the founders of the First National Bank of Chicago and co-founder of the Chicago Union Stockyards. The town was founded on a 3,800-acre (15 km2) tract of land in the southwestern part of the county which Allerton purchased in 1880. It had formerly been known as Twin Grove Farm (because of two very similar 100-acre (0.40 km2) groves of trees in the area). When the C&EI railroad came through the area, he gave them a right-of-way through his land, and then established a grain elevator and platted the village; later he provided land for a park, established a bank, provided funds for a new brick school in 1894, and installed a water system. Allerton himself continued to live in Chicago.
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Nothing in Allerton is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Allerton has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Streibich Blacksmith Shop in Newman, 8.4 miles away.
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