[Hunterstown, which bordered Henry street in Alton, was founded by Major Charles Hunter in 1820. The entire range of hills from Milton west to Piasa creek was densely covered with timber and settlers found ready at hand choice material of which to make log houses and clapboards with which to roof them. Hunterstown eventually became a part of Alton.] ALTON - NEW AND PROMISING ENTERPRISE BY DR. E. S. HULL Source: Alton Weekly Courier, January 22, 1857 We learn that Dr. E. S. Hull, the President of the Illinois Horticultural Society, has purchased a tract of land known as the Hunter tract, adjoining, on the north, that part of our city called Hunterstown, and is preparing the ground with a view to open a grand horticultural farm. The tract consists of a hundred and one acres, and includes hillside exposures, sloping in every direction. The greater portion of this land can be cultivated without difficulty, and all of it can be so cultivated as to produce fruit. Dr. Hull has a great variety and splendid supply of shrubbery, fruit trees, evergreens, &c., which will be transplanted in the grounds of the Horticultural farm as soon as spring opens. This plan, in extent of design, is the embryo of what will be in Dr. Hulls hands, the most magnificent enterprise of the kind in this part of the country.
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