Definition & Meaning | English word OQUAWKA

Definitions of OQUAWKA

1. A village in county seat in Henderson County, Illinois, USA.
2. Oquawka Township, Henderson County, Illinois, a twp in Illinois.

Examples of Using OQUAWKA in a Sentence

• Still, Oquawka survives well as a village, with 1,539 residents and a half-shuttered downtown that supports locals as well as visiting boaters.
• The town of Gilman was founded at the point where the Peoria and Oquawka Railroad would soon cross the Illinois Central Railroad.
• Secor was a member of the Board of Directors of the company that was building the Peoria and Oquawka Railroad.
• Octave Chanute was a civil engineer employed by the new Peoria and Oquawka Railroad, which is now the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad.
• At this time the Chicago and Alton Railroad, had been running trains for almost two years, but the survey for the east-west Toledo, Peoria and Oquawka (soon to be the Toledo, Peoria and Western) had not reached McLean County.
• County seats in those counties are Burlington, Fort Madison/Keokuk, Mount Pleasant, Wapello, Keosauqua, Oquawka and Carthage, respectively.

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