Onarga

by Onarga Historical Society

Book Overview

How Onarga received its name remains a mystery. Realists believe Illinois Central Railroad land commissioner John Calhoun combined two or three consonants and added the necessary vowels to invent a nice-sounding town name. Many prairie towns in the 1850s, with the arrival of the railroads, received their names by this method. Romantics believe Onarga was named for a young Native American girl, Princess Onarga, daughter of an Iroquois Indian chief...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073856060X
• ISBN13: 9780738560601
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"