Editing Lewistown, Illinois (section)

==History==
The city was named for [[Lewis Winans Ross]], the son of its first settler, [[Ossian M. Ross]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Gannett| first=Henry| title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States| url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ| year=1905| publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office| page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n185 186]}}</ref><ref>Chas. C. Chapman & Co. 1879. ''History of Fulton County, Illinois.'' Peoria: C.C. Chapman & Co.</ref> The Lewistown post office has been in operation since 1831.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IL&county=Fulton | title=Fulton County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=16 June 2015}}</ref> It contains a [[tempera]] on canvas mural titled ''Lewistown Milestones',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://murals.info-ren.org/photo.php?img=9383_9392&pano=0 | title=Post Office Art: Lewistown Milestones }}</ref> painted by [[Ida Abelman]] in 1941, depicting the [[Lincoln–Douglas debates]].<ref>Mavicliano, George H., and Richard A. Lawson, ''The Federal Art Project in Illinois: 1935-1943''. [[Southern Illinois University Press]], Carbondale (1990), p.167</ref> Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the [[Section of Painting and Sculpture]], later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Treasury Department]].