A City is Born,
Declared a newspaper article in 1906,
Invest in a New Town,
Cedar Point, Illinois.
This promising new settlement is located in Eden Township, La Salle County, Illinois, About 6 miles Southwest of the city of La Salle. It is on the lately completed Oglesby & Granville Railway which forms a belt connection with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and the Three-I branch of the New York Central at Granville, Ill., And with the Illinois Central and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railways at Oglesby, Illinois. It lies about midway between Granville and Oglesby. Here is located the new coal mining plant of the La Salle County Carbon Coal Co., which is nearing completion and will be one of the largest, most modern and best equipped coal mines in the world, capable of raising 2500 tons per day and should employ 700 to 800 men when fully developed. It is the center of one of the richest communities in the great corn belt of Illinois. Cedar Point should and will be one of the most rapidly growing towns in the Illinois River Valley.
Lots on Sale at Cedar Point
An ample subdivision of fine elevated prairie land lying adjacent to the new mine and along the new railway has been laid out into business and residential lots and these will be offered for sale at auction,
Tuesday, October 9, 1906.
The sale will begin at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon. It will pay you to investigate and invest.

Kind of makes you wonder what a residential lot would have cost you in Cedar Point in 1906. The Oglesby & Granville Railway was soon taken over by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. The La Salle County Carbon Coal Co. operated Mine #5 in Cedar Point from 1907-1930.