Palestine, IL

PALESTINE, p-v. , capital of Crawford co. Ill. , 155 s. E. Springfield, 689 W. Situated 3 ms. from Wabash r. , on the borders of Lamotte prairie. It contains a court house, a U. S. land office, 2 churches, 8 stores, various mechanic shops, and about 500 inhabitants.  (Haskell's Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the the United States...,1840)

PALESTINE   A post village, capital of Crawford county, two or three miles west from the Wabash river, and 155 miles east-south-east from Springfield. It is situated on the border of a prairie and contains a United States land office, also several churches and stores. Henry Young, Postmaster.  (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)