Welsh Ponies for Sale near Paxton, IL

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Welsh Pony Stallion
PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL. This team of ponies are broke to ride and drive. They..
Danville, Illinois
Sorrel
Welsh Pony
Stallion
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Danville, IL
IL
$950
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About Paxton, IL

The town was initially named Prairie City in the late 1840s, then Prospect City by an Illinois Central Railroad official in 1855. However, as Wilbur W. Sauer says that residents noted the town was "all prospect and no city." In 1859, it was renamed for Sir Joseph Paxton, architect of the Crystal Palace, who was a major shareholder in the Illinois Central Railroad, which in 1856 was the longest span of railroad in the world ( Chicago to Cairo). It was rumored that Paxton was interested in organizing an English settlement in Illinois. The colony never materialized, but the town kept the name.