Newspaper Article: Dorchester - 1 Jan 1998 - Macoupin County Illinois
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Project Archives ©1997 Cindy Leonard

Newspaper Article on Dorchester Macoupin County IL

contributed by Cindy Leonard

Carlinville Free Democrat July 14, 1859 - Page 3: Dorchester--Where is it? While 
stopping at a hotel in the north part of the county, a day or two since, we noticed 
upon the wall, a finely executed plat of a city. Its magnificent avenues, numerous 
streets and blocks and more especially its spacious public parks, all dotted with 
stately trees of luxuriant foliage, attracted our attention. We thought we were 
gazing upon the map of an eastern city and judge of our surprise when, upon 
more critical examination, we found that a city of such vast proportions and 
exceeding loveliness was located in Macoupin county, somewhere near the Terre 
Haute Road--exactly where no one could inform us. Could it be that so beautiful 
and grand a city had existed in our own county unbeknown to us? Can anyone 
inform us where Dorchester is located and by whom inhabited?

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