Jordon, Illinois

It offered two blacksmiths, one general store, one church, and various small "shops".

In 1920 the first concrete road (called "Route 45") was started from the south tip of Illinois continuing north to the Wisconsin border.

(There are interviews with local inhabitants which indicate that two merchants did not relocate, but chose to stay in Jordon).

Each business that chose to relocate was given a plot of land on which to place their establishment, and when this community of houses and businesses was finished it was (and is today) called Hord (after Jim Hord, who donated six acres for the new town).

The original church, built in approximately 1880, was relocated from Jordon to Hord in 1924, and is still in use today.