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The abstract on my property goes back to the original land grant (out of Shawneetown) given to a Revolutionary War vet.
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Let's go to Kiara (ph) calling from Shawneetown (ph).
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According to legend, some 170 years ago Arkansas 'second governor Archibald Yell offered the leaders of Shawneetown $50 if they'd name their town after him.
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For example, Time Warner Cable systems don't offer HDTV in such locations as Shawneetown, Ill.,
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A former Mayor of Shawneetown, he played a key role in the establishment of the Shawneetown Regional Port Authority on the Ohio River, and served as a member of the port authority board for several years.
4 Personnel Releases ITY National Archives 1993
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Huber of Shawneetown gathered 718 pounds from another tree.
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Shawneetown, Illinois, was entirely cut off from the outside world.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Logan Marshall
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After another twenty-four hours, all that was left of Shawneetown were the few substantial brick and stone buildings behind the main levee, and they were considered unsafe.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Logan Marshall
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Said boy was taken up by Thomas Walton, and says _he was free_, and that his parents live near Shawneetown, Illinois, and that he was _taken_ from that place in July 1836; says his father's name is William, and his mother's Sally Brown, and that they moved from Fredericksburg,
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Between Pittsburgh and Shawneetown, whilst "gliding merrily down the Ohio" in a _keel-boat_, "navigated by eight or ten of those half-horse and half-alligator gentry commonly called Ohio boatmen," Judge Hall was lulled to sweet sleep, as the rowers were "tugging at the oar," timing their strokes to the cadence: --
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829 Various
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