Excerpt from The History of Peoria County, Illinois: Containing a History of the Northwest; History of Illinois; History of the County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc Two hundred and seven years will have elapsed on the 25th of this coming June since the Territory now embraced within the boundaries of Peoria county was first visited by white man; a century has intervened since the French colony was planted on the site of Peoria City. 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.