Excerpt from Historical Souvenir of Vandalia, Illinois: Being a Brief Review of the City From Date of Founding to the PresentIt matters not that such a place is small, The real center is no place at all. Such center, old Vandalia, you have been And such a center you should be again.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.