Excerpt from Robert Allerton Park, Monticello, IllinoisCopyright, 1951, by the University of Illinois Press. Printed in the United States of America.On October 14, 1946, Robert Allerton gave to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois part of his homestead, The Farms, near Monticello in Piatt County, Illinois, to be used by the University as an educational and research center, as a forest and a wild-life and plant life reserve, as an example of landscape architecture, and as a public park. The portion known as the Woodland Property, approximately acres in extent, has been named Robert Allerton Park.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.