Mc - Lean, Illinois Mc - Lean, Illinois (2015).jpg County Mc - Lean Location of Mc - Lean inside Illinois Location of Mc - Lean inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Mc - Lean, Illinois Mc - Lean is a village in Mc - Lean County, Illinois, United States.
According to the 2010 census, Mc - Lean has a total region of 0.43 square miles (1.11 km2), all land. The town of Mc - Lean was laid out on June 22, 1855 by Franklin Price.
Mc - Lean was laid out when the Alton and Springfield Railroad, soon to turn into the Alton Railroad, was first assembled through Mc - Lean County.
The close-by towns of Atlanta, Normal, and Towanda were laid out at the same time as Mc - Lean.
Hope, two miles east of Mc - Lean, was established in 1836 by the Providence Farmers and Mechanics Emigrating Society of Rhode Island.
The colony and its town were not a success; only three pioneer actually appeared in Mc - Lean County.
When the town of Mc - Lean was founded, the church building from Mt.
Hope was moved into Mc - Lean.
Mc - Lean was incorporated as a village on May 29, 1866.
The design of the initial town of Mc - Lean remains almost unaltered to this day from the initial plans.
The initial town was basically a square with streets aligned north-south and east-west, split diagonally by the barns with a line of lots alongsideing either side of the tracks.
As in other suburbs along the same barns , there was a widened rectangular region alongsideing the tracks labeled "Depot Grounds." In the case of Mc - Lean, the Depot Grounds were laid out only on the southeast side of the barns .
The triangle of territory on the northwest side, between the lots alongsideing the barns and remainder of the town, was designated as a enhance property and is still used as a park.
Mclean was distinct ive in that there were no streets between the diagonal line of lots along the tracks.Perhaps because of this, much of the company precinct advanced along Morgan Street, which ran east-west just north of the park, or along Hamilton Street, which ran north-south, just west of the park.
The line of lots alongsideing the tracks and southeast of the barns became the locale of the hotel and the town jail.
Later additions on the east side of the town featured additional lots which alongside the barns as well as more conventional blocks. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Mc - Lean County (Edited by Ezra M.
History of Mc - Lean County, Illinois (Chicago: Le - Baron 1879) pp.
Combined Indexed Atlas 1856 -1914, Mc - Lean County Illinois (Bloomington, Illinois: Mc - Lean County Historical Society and Mc - Lean County Genealogical society, 2006) pp.
Municipalities and communities of Mc - Lean County, Illinois, United States Anchor Arrowsmith Bellflower Carlock Colfax Cooksville Danvers Downs Ellsworth Gridley Heyworth Hudson Mc - Lean Saybrook Stanford Towanda Allin Anchor Arrowsmith Bellflower Bloomington Blue Mound Cheney's Grove Chenoa Cropsey Dale Danvers Dawson Downs Dry Grove Empire Funk's Grove Gridley Hudson Lawndale Lexington Martin Money Creek Mount Hope Normal Old Town Randolph Towanda West White Oak Yates
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Villages in Mc - Lean County, Illinois - Villages in Illinois - Populated places established in 1855
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