In 1823, a roving band of Kickapoo Indians met the first white settlers to venture into what is now Schuyler county. A peaceful tribe, they seem to have accepted this incursion into their hunting grounds, and by 1825 a new County had been established and named after the gallant Revolutionary soldier General Schuyler. Traveling by the Overland Trail winding across southern Illinois, and via the Illinois River, settlers Calvin Hobart and O. Matheny were the first to settle here, having heard from soldiers who had camped along the Mississippi of the rich prairie without stones in the soil, grass which grew as high as a man’s shoulders, and the abundance of trees and water. The nearest post office was Jacksonville, the nearest neighbor twelve miles away on the opposite side of the river, and the bare necessities of life were rare. But soon others came to join them. When Hobart purchased a (Band Mill) to grind flour, all the early settlers came to his cabin to grind their grain, each person taking his turn at driving the oxen which furnished the power to turn the mill. The city of Rushton was founded in 1826, established as the county seat and named after prominent physician D. B. Rush. Let’s see the Illinois Golf Courses in Schuyler County, Illinois.
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