Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sesquicentennial History Book, 1824-1974: Commemorating 150 Years of Growth and Development in the Celestial City
Pekin Township has the distinction of having the first white settlement in Illinois. For on January 3, 1680, Robert de La Salle with a fleet of canoes con taining 33 explorers landed on the eastern bank of the Illinois River near the present site of Creve Coeur. In the near vicinity. Upon the extremity of a ridge pro tected by deep ravines. A winter refuge was built in what is now the southeast quarter of section one. Pekin Township.
Though frequented by travelers after that time, and inhabited by Indians before and after. The area which is now the city of Pekin was not permanently settled until the summer of 1824. It was then that Jonathan Tharp moved from Kingston and built a small log cabin on the high east bank of the river. On or close to what is now the site of Franklin School. He began farming a large area that is presentlv a part of down town Pekin.
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