Robert Holliday, an early settler in what is now Polk Township, petitioned the County Commis sion of Court in Macoupin County in 1836 for permission and was granted permission to build a dam and water powered sawmill on the Macoupin Creek at theinte rsection of Macoupin Creek and Dry Fork Branch Creek, the enterprise to be located on property he owned in section 27. . . Read more in MACOUPIN COUNTY, ILLINOIS HISTORY & FAMILIES available in our genealogy library or through this website.