Author: Mrs. Will Griffith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-28

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9780266882916

Excerpt from A History of the First Presbyterian Church of Carbondale, Illinois, From Its Beginning in 1853: One Hundred Years in the Service of the Lord On this site the town of Carbondale was laid out, November 24, 1852. The first residence was built by James Boyd Richart, brother of William Richart. It was proposed that the sale of intoxicating liquors, as a beverage, should be forever prohibited upon any and all the lots. The proposition was adopted and entered upon the plat and inserted in deeds, made to parties to whom lots were conveyed, providing that All the right, title and interest of any person, whatsoever, to any lot in this town, or which he, she or they shall, hereafter sell spiritous liquor, to be used as a beverage, shall then and there after be forfeited to and become the property of the inhabitants of the said town for the support of public schools and to that extent and for that pur pose are hereby appropriated. In the original plat four lots were designated as Reserved for Churches of the Christian denominations, and were one in each quarter of the town, equi-distant from its center, the public square. The c'ondition annexed to the donation of the lots was entered upon the plat as follows: The lots donated to the churches, as marked on the plat, are not to vest in said churches until a house of worship shall be erected thereon, of stone, brick or frame, worth at least and then to vest in fee simple in such church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.