Greenup, IL

GREENUP, a small post-village, capital of Cumberland county, Illinois, on Embarras river, at the crossing of the National road, 111 miles E. S. E. from Springfield.  Population, 948.  (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)

GREENUP   A fine post village, capital of Cumberland county, on the Embarras river, at the crossing of the National road, 111 miles east-south-east from Springfield. The Atlantic and Mississippi railroad is located through the village. C. C. Starkweather, Postmaster.  (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)

Note: County seat till 1857.