Excerpt from Hoopeston Centennial: Souvenir Booklet The Bicknell House built on North Fork, 1835: rebuilt as Bicknell Inn in 1845. Located about 2 miles north of Rossville (called Liggett's Grove and Henpeck). George and William Bicknell set up a homestead and as traffic increased on Hubbard's Trail, they erected the inn in 1845. Abraham Lincoln was said to be a patron years later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.