Annotations
RUSHVILLE, p-v., capital of Schuyler co., Ill, 60 Springfield, 838 W. It is situated at the s. end of a beautiful prairie, and contains a court house of brick, 2 stories high, a jail, 4 churches— 1 Presbyterian, 1 Methodist, 1 Episcopal, and 1 Campbellite—150 dwellings, and about 1,000 inhabitants. (Haskell's Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the the United States...,1840)
RUSHVILLE A thriving post village, capital of Schuyler county, is pleasantly situated on the border of a prairie, 60 miles west-north-west from Springfield, and 10 miles north-west from the Illinois river. It is the centre of active trade. Joseph Haskell, Postmaster. (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)
Total Population 1850
1251
Total Population 1860
1312
Latitude
40.119966
Longitude
-90.566548
Type
City or Town
County
Schuyler
State
Illinois