McDonough County Courthouse—South Entrance

Addresses for County Courthouse and IRAD:

Established:		January 25, 1826 Laws, 1826, p. 76)
		County organization was completed on June 14, 1830.
Origin of the name of the county:
	Named for Thomas McDonough, a Commodore of the United States Navy, who commanded the fleet on Lake Champlain in a successful engagement with the British fleet, near Plattsburg in 1814.
Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in:
	1826–1830	Attached to Schuyler (Laws, 1826, p. 76)
	1825–1826	Schuyler
	1821–1825	Pike
	1812–1821	Madison
	1795–1812	St. Clair
County Seat:
	1831–	Macomb
History of county governing board:
	1830–1849	County Commissioners’ Court
	1849–1857	County Court
	1857–	County Board of Supervisors
Township Government
	Adopted	November 4, 1856
Township Names:
	Bethel	Name changed from Eagle in October, 1857.
	Blandinsville
	Bushnell	Formed from Prairie City in June, 1866.
	Chalmers	Name changed from Erin in October, 1857.
	Colchester	Formed from Tennessee and Chalmers in July, 1879, to take effect on March 15, 1880.
	Eldorado
	Emmet	Name changed from Spring Creek in October, 1857.
	Hire	Name changed frm Rock Creek in October, 1857.
	Industry
	Lamoine
	Macomb
	Macomb City	Formed from Emmet, Macomb, Chalmers and Scotland (date unknown, after 1921).
	Mound
	New Salem
	Prairie City
	Sciota
	Scotland
	Tennessee
	Walnut Grove