Mount Sterling, IL

MOUNT STERLING, p-v., capital of Brown co., Ill., 77 w. by n. Springfield, 854 W. Situated on a small branch of Crooked creek, and contains a court house, and several stores and dwellings.  (Haskell's Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the the United States...,1840)

MOUNT STERLING   A post village, capital of Brown county, 77 miles west by north from Springfield. It is pleasantly situated on the border of a fertile prairie, and is fast becoming a place of considerable note. A line of road running through this place, and connecting the Quincy and Great Western roads, is already proposed, and will probably be built during the present year. John P. Nye, Postmaster.  (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)