Rutland, Illinois 3.44

Rutland is a village located mostly in LaSalle County that stretches into Marshall County, Illinois, United States. It is part of the Ottawa - Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area, and at the 2000 census, the population was 354.HistoryThe village was founded as New Rutland in 1855 when approximately 200 members of the Vermont Emigration Association paid $10 each for a plot of land. The original location of the town-site was exclusively within LaSalle county. However, an additional ten blocks of land was added October 20, 1856 that was located primarily in adjacent Marshall County.Donated by Jim Flynn, HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF EARLY RUTLAND, IL, Taken from the Rutland Record Centennial Edition (1955). The long defunct Rutland Record was revived for a single 20-page centennial issue on August 4. Much historical information from the Record's files was well organized into the articles."''" The Section House mentioned in these stories was a bunkhouse built by the Illinois Central on the way through here. It was a lone landmark at the time, pre-dating Rutland by a couple years. It stood just north of the mine dump where the little pond is now. This house became the first permanent Flynn home. It stayed in the family for 3 generations. My dad and his brother were born in this house.The T&E RR was actually the Toluca, Marquette, and Northern. It ran from Rutland to Toluca, then north to Spring Valley. It was owned by Charles Devlin, who also owned the Toluca coal mine and many other properties. There was no connection to the I.C. at Rutland.