Dorsey
December 15, 2017
Last modified: December 15, 2017
Dorsey is an unincorporated community in Madison County located in Moro Township north of Bethalto. It was named for frontier settler Samuel L. Dorsey,((Edward Callary, Place Names of Illinois. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010), 96.)) and it has had a post office since 1857.((“Madison County”. Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 15 December 2017.))
Cite this article: Nichol Allen and Ben Ostermeier, "Dorsey," Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive for Madison County, Illinois, last modified December 15, 2017, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/encyclopedia/dorsey/.
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