Founder Marker

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Address Mill and Nicholas , Alton, Osborne County

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Founder Marker

Under the limestone Alton sign, a granite marker commemorates town founders Hiram C. Bull and Lyman T. Earl. In 1870 these men flipped a coin to determine if the town would be named Bull City or Earlsville. Bull won the flip but after he died, the town name was changed to Alton in 1885.

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