Draft Horses for Sale near Roanoke, IL

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Trixie
Trixie is a draft cross which includes Clydesdale/Percheron/QH. She turned ..
Heyworth, Illinois
Bay
Draft
Mare
6
Heyworth, IL
IL
$2,000
Draft Stallion
Flaxen mane / tail. Quick learner, eager to try new things. Drives single..
Waynesville, Illinois
Sorrel
Draft
Stallion
-
Waynesville, IL
IL
$9,500
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About Roanoke, IL

Until about 1850, much of northern Illinois was still frontier land and sparsely populated, which the exception of Chicago and towns along the rivers. This changed in 1850, when President Millard Fillmore signed a land grant for the construction of the Illinois Central Railroad (lobbied for by then-lawyers Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln). With the railroad expanding into Central Illinois, new opportunities for settlement by German, Dutch, Irish, Italian, Swedish, and other European immigrants opened up in Woodford County. Roanoke was one of these settlements. On December 17, 1872, Roanoke was mapped out and lots were offered for sale.