Forgotten Small Town Mounds, IL - Eerie Abandoned & Overgrown Buildings, Old Churches & Train Cars

June 27, 2024 Driving around historic Mounds, Illinois in Pulaski County. There is a sign across from the post office that says Mounds was established in 1815. Below you will read how in 1889 a village to house the Railroad Company employees. This area would late be named "Mounds". ***If you have any historical information that you would like to add about Mounds, Illinois, please comment or add links below. There seems to be a very limited amount of information online about the town. https://genealogytrails.com/ill/pulas... ..."In 1889 when the railroad bridge across the Ohio River at Cairo was being built, the Illinois Central Railroad Company began the construction of a division terminal three miles west of Mound City where the railroad to the latter place joined the main line of the I. C. Capt. N. B. Thistlewood saw the need for a village to house the employees if the Railroad Company and laid out a small tract of land in streets and lots and sold the lots to those employees. Homes were built on those lots. He called the original village BEECHWOOD but the railroad Company knew the place as Mound City Junction. This name was soon changed to that of MOUNDS. As the activities of the railroad enlarged the number of employees was increased and more lots were laid out and sold. The village continued to grow until the terminal was discontinued by the Railroad Company in 1931."..... https://pulaski.illinoisgenweb.org/hi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounds,... #mounds #illinois #alongtheway #travel #ohioriver #pulaski #abandoned #smalltown #smalltownusa #railroad #river #indianmounds #ancientland #historic #downtown #dilapidated #postoffice