The earliest inhabitants of the area we now all Bunker Hill were the Peoria, Kickapoo and Win nebago Indians who roamed the prairies and had a grand camping ground near a large spring northeast of Bunker Hill. With the coming of the white settlers, the Native Americans gradually disappeared, and the last five wigwams were pulled down in 1826. In 1830, Elijah Lincoln be came the first settler in the immediate vicinity and being a man of great vision, he started a town and named it Lincoln. Read more in MACOUPIN COUNTY, ILLINOIS HISTORY & FAMILIES available in our genealogy library or through this website.