Tazewell County
May 1999
Photo of the Month
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| "First Tazewell County Courthouse. Drawn by William H. Bates, Pekin, Illinois, from specifications on record at the County Clerk's office. It was 18-24 foot in size, 1½ story high, made of hewn logs one foot square, and stood on blocks about 2 feet high, sawed from large trees. It was about the first building in the county to have glass windows. It was built at Mackinaw, the first county seat, in 1827, by Amasa Stought, for $125." |
