Houstonville

Houstonville is a ghost town in Illinois, recorded as unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Illinois has 208 former communities on the federal names register.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Houstonville as a historical populated place: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Illinois before 1931 that mention “Houstonville”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context.

• 1907-12-26Canton Weekly Register (Canton, Ill.)
• 1908-02-13Canton Weekly Register (Canton, Ill.)
• 1908-03-12Canton Weekly Register (Canton, Ill.)
• 1909-06-10Canton Weekly Register (Canton, Ill.)

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