Excerpt from Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Bishop Hill Colony: Held at Bishop Hill, Illinois, Wednesday and Thursday, September 23 and 24, 1896

To The Reader:

Believing that it will be appreciated by posterity if a record of the proceedings of the Semi-Centennial celebration of the settlement of Bishop Hill Colony, in Henry County, Illinois, which was held at Bishop Hill on September 23 and 24, 1896, would be preserved in a more permanent form, the writer has undertaken the task by copying said proceedings which were published at the time by E. E. Fitch in a special edition of "The Galva Weekly News, " which is herewith submitted in pamphlet form, with some additions in the line of views of buildings, photographs and groups of old settlers taken in the park at the Reunion, with the expressed wish that on the one hundredth anniversary of the event, these proceedings be read as a part of the exercises of the occasion. The children, and men, and women, who are coming upon the scene of action even now, cannot be made to realize the conditions existing here when the first pioneers blazed the way in the wilderness, to this now fertile garden spot of the New World, and by 1946 these proceedings will perhaps read like fairy tales, rivaling in their truth the most fertile imagination of a Jules Verne and a Hans Christian Anderson.

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