What is the history of Bunker Hill, Illinois?
This history of Bunker Hill was summarized from several sources, Bunker Hill-Woodburn History Book, Reflections, and early issues of the Bunker Hill Gazette-News. The site of the present town of Bunker Hill was once known to the early settlers of Macoupin county as Wolf Ridge. It was this named because wolves lived in the area. The choice of the name, Bunker Hill, was not due to the existence of any great elevation, but rather to the fact that there is a hill here somewhat like that upon which the famous battle of the Revolution was fought and because those who gave the name came from a section of the country in which Bunker Hill was familiar and held in great reverence. The earliest inhabitants of the community were the Peoria, Kickapoo and Winnebago Indians. One of the earliest settlers of the township was John Cooper, a native of Tennessee, who built a house on the edge of the prairie. In the neighborhood of the Springfield road, leading from Springfield to St. Louis, several settle
