Teutopolis, Illinois (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Teutopolis is a village in Effingham County, Illinois.Teutopolis is located at 39 7 56 N 88 28 42 W / 39.13222 N 88.47833 W / 39.13222; -88.47833 (39.132125, -88.478435). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), all of it land.Teutopolis, City of the Teutons, or Germans, was established in 1839 and is located on the Cumberland Trail known as the Old National Road and now U.S. Route 40. Teutopolis is located in the northeastern segment of Effingham County. It is the only town in the United States with this name. Teutopolis did not evolve as the accidental by-product of a trading post, church, inn, stage coach relay station, or junction of roadways or railroads but was the result of much thought and controversy, hard-headed economy, investigation, planning and a vast amount of patience. Clemens Uptmor from dukedom of Oldenburg, and kingdom of Hanover, Germany came to the United States in 1834 along with his brother Herman H. Uptmor and a few neighbors.