Population (2010) Unincorporated Visitor Information Get your questions answered from the folks at the Pike County Chamber of Commerce (217.285.2971). History Pike County’s first European resident, Ebenezer Franklin, built a home near present-day Rockport in 1820. For a while the area was known as Pecan Grove, because,
Population (2010) 359 Visitor Information Get your questions answered from the folks at the Pike County Chamber of Commerce (217.285.2971). History Quincy founders John Wood and Willard Keyes pitched tents in this area when they first arrived from the East, but Charles T. Brewster, Hiram Smith, and
Population (2010) 216 Visitor Information Get your questions answered from the folks at the Pike County Chamber of Commerce (217.285.2971). History In 1836, Chester Churchill and Bridge Whitten, natives of New York, founded the village of Kinderhook. The village grew along and below a short bluff, an
Population (2010) 461 Visitor Information Get your questions answered from the folks at the Pike County Chamber of Commerce (217.285.2971). History David Hull (History of Pike County) Hull’s Station was platted by David Hull, Rensellaer Sweet, and William Bridge about the time the first railroad
Population (2010) 47 Visitor Information Get your questions answered from the folks at the Pike County Chamber of Commerce (217.285.2971). History Shaved off of Kinderhook Township in 1875, Levee Township takes its name from the big Sny Island Levee that keeps the Mississippi River out of its
The village of Seehorn had a road connection to Shepherd in the early years; the road was nicknamed Corduroy Road because of the number of poles laid across mud holes that made the trip a little more likely to be completed. Seehorn was later a stop along the 1920s-era Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway
