Patton Township, Ford County, Illinois

Extant structures include a grain elevator which is still in service next to the rail grade, now removed.

[4] Ten Mile Grove is said to be the earliest settlement in Patton Township with about a dozen families residing there in 1853.

It was located on the Danville-Ottawa road and named such because it was ten miles (16 km) from the nearest settlement.

[5] The grove is partly contained in the Howard Thomas Memorial Nature Preserve.

[6] The preserve, containing many Bur oak, sustained damage in a 2004 wind storm which felled numerous trees.

[7] The township contains these seven cemeteries: Farmersville, Glen, Hall, Meharry, Pells Park, Prospect and Ten Mile Grove.

Perdueville grain elevator in section 9 of the township.
Sign marking Ten Mile Grove
Map of Illinois highlighting Ford County