1	Carrollton	12	Peoria
2	Eldred	13	Beardstown
3	Charleston	14	Virginia
4	Hudson	15	Paris
5	Normal	16	Springfield
6	Bloomington	17	Cantrall
7	Towanda	18	Lewiston
8	Quincy	19	Petersburg
9	Jacksonville	20	Bement
10	Danville	21	Urbana
11	Nauvoo	22	Decatur

 p39  Part II, Central Illinois

As more and more homeseekers, with their pots and pans, their children and cattle, came into the vast upper Mississippi Valley, they spread out over the grassy prairies of central Illinois. They took root and, as their worldly fortunes increased, they built comfortable houses of wood, of stone, of brick. These houses were designed like the homes their owners had known earlier in the East and South. Many were in the Greek Revival and Roman Revival styles. Also, there were houses patterned after the Georgian and French modes. On farms and in the cities appeared mansions with spacious verandas, scrollwork trim, mansard roofs, and ornamental cupolas. These were the homes of successful farmers, merchants, lawyers, and public officials of central Illinois — men who had come to the state when they were young, come with empty pockets but heads full of dreams. One of the visitors in many of these homes was Abe Lincoln, a circuit-riding Springfield lawyer and storyteller who had less in his pockets and more in his head than any of them.

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