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For a look at what's going on in Monmouth, check out the Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce Calendar of Events. You can also check out events at the Monmouth College site.

History

In 1827 during a poker game in New Orleans, John Talbot won the title to a tract of land in Illinois. Talbot, a Kentucky plantation owner, decided to go to Illinois to see what he had won. Upon arriving, Talbot saw a land with rich, black soil and wide-open prairies. Located between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, the area was irresistible. Talbot went back to Kentucky and gathered a group of friends who returned with him and settled what is known today as Monmouth.

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