However the plan used was virtually identical to that used at Fairbury, including the street names, and very similar to that used at Gridley, El Paso and other places along the Peoria and Oquawka Railroad.

He did not use force, but quietly laid his rails to the eastern edge of town, skipped Fairbury, began again at the western edge, and worked straight on until Saturday night.

Fairbury is located at.

The legend of " Wild Bill " Hickok began, as reported in Harper's Monthly, at Rock Creek Station, a stagecoach and Pony Express station in southern Nebraska, near present-day Fairbury, NE.

Chanute built the railroad that made Fairbury possible, but did so against the will of Patton, Fairbury's first citizen.

Fairbury was laid out on November 10, 1857 by Caleb L. Patton and Octave Chanute.

Like most Illinois towns of the 1850s, the original town of Fairbury was centered around a depot ground.

However, when Chanute reached Fairbury, he was met by a group of armed citizens.

A new railroad was being considered, and Marsh used his power to see that it passed through only the west side of Fairbury and not through the east.

Patton sold his real estate in Fairbury years prior to this, and Wallace Amsbary was now the most prominent citizen in the east.

With that, Fairbury was to become just another small town along the Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad.

Several parts of the book were also published in the Fairbury Blade on April 3, 1958, and was dubbed The Buckle on the Cornbelt.

When Forrest was established the Toledo Peoria and Western Railroad had already been in operation for almost ten years and therefore, the origin of the town is unlike Fairbury, Chatsworth, Chenoa, Gridley and El Paso, all of which were founded when the railroad was first built.

At first there were hopes that the Chicago and Paducah Railroad could be induced to construct its tracks through the town, but this road was diverted to nearby Fairbury.

He was born just outside of Fairbury, Illinois, where a post office is memorialized in his honor.

Francis Earl Townsend was born the second of six children on January 13, 1867 in Fairbury, Illinois.

Its county seat is Fairbury.

Both were attempting to attract a station on the new Fairbury Pontiac and Northwestern Railroad, which eventually became part of the Wabash Railroad.

Fairbury is a city in Livingston County, Illinois, United States.

Fairbury City Hall is listed on the U. S. National Register of Historic Places.

It is Caleb Patton who should really be credited for the creation of Fairbury.

If Chanute built his railroad through Fairbury, then Patton would give Chanute half of the town's property.

Inside this block were two saddle and harness stores, a gun and sporting goods store, a poultry house, a drug store, Fairbury Marble Works ( they made tomb stones for the cemetery ), and a bed spring factory.

The Walton Brothers building in downtown Fairbury is still operating as a department store as of September 2007.

Marsh did not like the east side of Fairbury and developed his west side vigorously.

When the railroad came to the west end of Fairbury, the tracks were laid.

During the celebration, Amsbary and his friends built the railroad through the east side of Fairbury and then started it southbound towards Strawn.

Amsbary celebrated his victory by building the Fairbury House, and advertised it as the " Poorest Hotel in Illinois.

Fairbury had somehow managed to become a prime location for pyromaniacs.

`` It wasn't necessarily all here in New York.

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While violence seemed to follow the Mormons wherever they went, it wasn't necessarily the Mormons ' doing, as Krakauer points out.

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