Name: A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois
Author: Walton, Clyde C
ISBN: 9780809307623

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A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois

by John M. Lansden
foreword by Clyde C Walton

Southern Illinois University Press, 1976
eISBN: 978-0-8093-8659-8 | Cloth: 978-0-8093-0762-3 | Paper: 978-0-8093-2936-6

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Long out of print and much sought after bycollectors, Lansden’s classic 1910 history of Cairo remains valuable for the early history of the city. Its reprinting here, with a new Foreword by Clyde C. Walton, former Illinois State Historian, thus makes available again one of the finest examples of local history ever written, stressing as itdoes Cairo’s important relations with its area and with the country—in Lansden’s words, “this part of the Valley of the Mississippi—this Illinois Country.”

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Book Title

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

I. Sketch of the Illinois Country

II. Early French Explorers and Missionary Priests

III. The Illinois Territorial Government

IV. The City of Cairo of 1818

V. Cairo's Site and Place from 1818 to 1836

VI. The City of Cairo from 1836 to 1846--The Illinois Central Rairoad Co. of 1836--The Illinois Exporting Co.--The Cairo City and Canal Co.

VII. The Cairo City and Canal Co.--Succeeded by the Cairo City Property Trust--Cairo from June 13, 1846, to December 23, 1853

VIII. Cairo's Site and Its Abrasions by the Rivers--Levees and Levee Construction--Highest Known Floods

IX. Low Lots and Grounds--Seepage--The Linegar Bill--Street Filling--City Indebtedness

X. The Wharf and Wharfage--Riparian Rights

XI. Geological Formations--The Signal Station--The River Gauge--Temperatures and Rain-Falls

XII. The Illinois Central Railroad

XIII. Maps and Plats

XIV. The Ohio and Mississippi Rivers--The Territory Drained--The Ohio River as a Boundary

XV. The Health of the City

XVI. Cairo During the War 1861-1865

XVII. Churches

XVIII. The Schools of the City

XIX. The A. B. Safford Memorial Library--St. Mary's Infirmary--The United States Marine Hospital

XX. The Trustees of the Cairo City Property--The Trustees of the Cairo Trust Property--Some of Their Civil Engineers--Cairo Newspapers

XXI. Cairo in Servitude to Land Companies

XXII. The American Notes

XXIII. The Town Government of Two Years and the City Government of Fifty-Three Years--The Seventeen Mayors

XXIV. Darius B. Holbrook, Miles A. Gilbert, Samuel Staats Taylor, William P. Halliday Brothers

XXV. The Groth of "The Three States"

XXVI. Alexander County, Its Other Towns, and Its Earliest Settlers

XXVII. Harrell's Short History and "The History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties"

XXVIII. Other Railroads--Illinois Central and Thebes Railroad Bridges--The Cairo Harbor and Bacon Rock--Ferries: Cairo's Need of

XXIX. Cairo Banks--Building and Loan Associations--The Custom House--The Halliday Hotel--The Springfield Block--The Court of Common Pleas--Alexander M. Jenkins

XXX. Extracts from Books, Pamphlets and Letters

XXXI. Fort Jefferson--Bird's Point and the Birds

XXXII. Miscellaneous Papers--Judges of the Supreme, Circuit and County Courts--Members of the Legislature and Other Bodies--County, City and Other Officers--Lists of Early Residents of This City, Etc.

XXXIII. Cairo as a Business Place or Point--The Future of the City

Acknowledgments

Index

List of Sponsors of This Edition

Back Cover

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