Tennessee Walking Horses for Sale near Roanoke, IL

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Tennessee Walking Mare
Registered Tennessee Walking Horse. Professional training and has been sh..
Princeville, Illinois
Sorrel
Tennessee Walking
Mare
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Princeville, IL
IL
$3,000
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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.