Trip to old Dantown Illinois

Old Dantown, located a little over a mile East of Argenta and was home to one of the greatest whiskey distilleries in the country, and it was also a very rowdy place between the mid-1800s and early 1900s, It may be a bridge to nowhere now, but more than a 100 years ago the Dantown bridge led to one of Macon County's most “wide open" communities.
Because of drinking, gambling, horse racing, fighting, and prostitution the community of Dantown, originally called West Danville, became known as "Hell’s Half Acre" in the mid-1800s.
There were four streets, several stores, about 15 homes, a grist mill, a sawmill, and a tile yard in addition to the most memorable establishment - a corn whiskey distillery.
Early county history notes the Dantown area was a Spanish trading post and a center of Indian activity prior to the arrival of Col. Dan Conklin of Ohio, who platted the area in 1854.
After Conklin's death and a heavy whiskey tax during the Civil War, the town started to slide economically.
But V.D. Ross still operated the Dan- town distillery as late as 1910. The decline of the area was accelerated when most of Macon County went dry in 1907 and 1908. but the distillery was producing as much as 100 gallons a day up until then. I plan to drive there this weekend to see if there is anything at all left of this great piece of Macon Counties History