A corner of La Salle County

 

UWM Library. La Salle County, IL. 1859.

This corner of the La Salle County map from 1859 shows Peru and La Salle Townships, where my 3rd-great-grandmother Bridget was living in 1850 (Peru was then called Salisbury). The map also shows the Illinois and Michigan Canal meeting the Illinois River in La Salle. John and Bridget O'Brien purchased a plot of land from the trustees of the canal in 1853.