FIRST - County Seat in Saline County - Raleigh, IL
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N 37° 49.639 W 088° 31.982
16S E 365084 N 4187762
Early law practice marker points out this was also the first county seat.
Waymark Code: WMVB0P
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2017
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County of marker: Saline County
Location of marker: Church St. & Main St., Raleigh
Marker Erected by: The Illinois State Historical Society
Date marker erected: 1956
Marker Text:
INGERSOLL LAW OFFICE
1855 - 1857 Two hundred feet east of here was the Ingersoll law office. Ebon Clark Ingersoll and Robert Green Ingersoll, his younger brother, before they moved to Peoria, had a successful law practice in the Saline County Circuit Court which met in Raleigh,
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