Mulkeytown, IL

Mulkeytown is an unincorporated and census-designated place in Franklin County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 162 residents. Mulkeytown is named for preacher John Mulkey and his family; Mulkey founded the Mulkeytown Christian Church, the oldest in the community, in 1818. Centennial and sesquicentennial farms are those family farms that have been held within a family for more than 100 or 150 years. Mulkeytown Grade School - Now re-purposed as the West Franklin Historical District and Genealogical Society. A newcomer can read Mulkeytown through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Mulkeytown comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Mulkeytown is located 309 miles south of Chicago, and 95 miles southeast of St. Louis. Mulkeytown is located on Illinois Route 184, 3 miles west of Christopher, in Tyrone Township, in the west-central portion of Franklin County.