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From the 1870 Atlas Map of Knox County, Illinois, Andreas, Lyter & Co., Davenport, Iowa, 91 pages.  [Submitted by Bob Miller.]

"Summit was laid out Oct. 17, 1856, by W. K. Wear.  It is on high prairie, and has several Stores doing a good business."