Council Hill Township
Jo Daviess County, Illinois
The Township of Council Hill is said to have been quite a resort for
the Indian tribes, and there are various legends as to councils or, as the
early settlers called them, "pow-wows" having been held there. Its earliest
settler was probably John Batty, who, it is claimed, built the first
blast furnace for the reduction of lead ore that was ever built in America.
Patrick Hogan and Ezekiel Lockwood, Simon Alderson, Mr. Branton
and Richard Arthur came later. There are within the township two villages,
neither of which has ever been incorporated, one being called Council
Hill and the other Council Hill Station on the line of the Illinois
Central Railroad. The latter place, however, is now called Lupton
in honor of one of her prominent citizens. There is considerable business
done at both villages and vast quantities of lead ore have been taken from
the mines in this township.
(This section is taken from the book "History of Jo Daviess County 1904)
Lupton Family History
Council Hill Township - Biographical Directory
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