Arenzville, Illinois

City: Arenzville

County: Cass

State: Illinois

Lat/Long: 39.8667, -90.3667

John A. Arenz surveyed the first lots in 1839 and surveyed the town that would become Arenzville in 1852. The first building for religious services was built in 1839. In 1857, Francis Arenz made an addition to Arenzville. The town did not grow at a rapid pace but was a center of a large German settlement.

William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Cass County, Illinois (Chicago: O.L. Baskin, 1882), 146-48; Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, eds., Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Cass County, , ed. by Charles Æ. Martin (Chicago: Munsell, 1915), 2:801.