Ever wonder why most of the small rural towns are all about 6-7 miles away from each other?

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5. Most of the towns around here were established communities long before the railroad came

Not booming cities or anything. Just small outposts. They were small border towns located along the Kankakee river. Mostly populated by French Canadians. My great grandfather was a French Canadian fur trapper who married a Native American woman. The only other means of transportation besides horse and buggies during that time were small boats on the Kankakee River in this area. The trains eventually put the boats out of business. These towns had not yet become incorporated but many of these towns were established communities well before the trains.

The 6 mile spacing between towns around here was established decades before the trains ever came. And many of these small towns do not have a railroad tracks going through them to this day.

The first trains began arriving around here in the 1850's.

Thanks for that information.

Don