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Clinton County, Illinois

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Annis "Anna" O'Neal (1868 - 1917)
Seymore O'Neal (1868 - 1933)
Photo from https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/109516565/person/250073478186/media/db9768ac-793f-4bbd-ad3d-b438b4d57bb1?_phsrc=tRg1517&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=6 This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1928.

Nadine Ramsey (1911 - 1997)
Nadine Ramsey was an American aviator who became one of the first two women to fly mail for the US Postal Service. She was a Women Airforce Service Pilot and one of only twenty-six WASPs to pilot a Loc...
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Edwin Ramsey (1917 - 2013)
Edwin Ramsey was a United States Army officer and guerrilla leader during the World War II Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Early in the war, he led the last American cavalry charge in military ...
John Ramsey (1839 - 1913)
Mr. John Ramsey was retired, residing at 400 South Valley Street in Carthage, Missouri with his wife Jerusha. He passed away from complications of acute yellow atrophy of liver, at age 73 years, 11 mo...

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In 1805, prior to the establishment of the county, the territorial government established a post road from its capital (Vincennes, Indiana) to St. Louis, Missouri, passing through the county. In 1808 a wagon road was laid out through the future Clinton County. It extended from the Goshen Settlement to the Ohio salt works and crossed the Kaskaskia River at Carlyle.

Clinton County was created on 27 December 1824, from portions of Washington, Fayette, and Bond Counties. It was named for the seventh Governor of New York, DeWitt Clinton, who helped build the Erie Canal.

Crossing the Kaskaskia became much easier when the bridge now known as the General Dean Suspension Bridge was built in 1859, at a cost of $40,000. Before the bridge was constructed, crossings involved a ferry or a mud bridge. The Illinois General Assembly set aside $20,000 for bridge restoration in 1951, and in 1953 the bridge was named after William F. Dean.

Adjacent Counties

Cities & Villages

Albers
Aviston
Bartelso
Beckemeyer
Breese
Carlyle (County Seat)
Centralia (part)
Damiansville
Germantown
Hoffman
Huey
Keyesport (part)
New Baden (part)
Saint Rose
Shattuc
Trenton
Wamac (part)

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