Annotations
TREMONT, p-v., capital of Tazewell co., Ill., 57 N. Springfield, 771 W. Situated on a pleasant prairie, and laid out in 1835. It contains a court house, jail, 3 churches, occupied by several denominations, 11 stores and groceries, 60 dwellings, and about 350 inhabitants. (Haskell's Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the the United States...,1843)
TREMONT A thriving post village, capital of Tazewell county, is pleasantly situated on a prairie 67 miles north by east from Springfield. It contains a fine court house, several churches and a number of stores of different branches, all doing a good business. David Roberts, Postmaster. (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)
Total Population 1850
461
Latitude
40.524851
Longitude
-89.490608
Type
City or Town
County
Tazewell
State
Illinois