Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sangamon River” in chapter 2 of John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History:
..., would establish regular trips between Springfield and Beardstown, but she never came.
The freshets and floods of 1831 and 1832 were succeeded by a series of dry seasons, and the navigation of the Sangamon River was never afterward a telling plank in the county platform of either political party.
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