This history of Bunker Hill was summarized from several sources, Bunker Hill-Woodburn History Book, Reflections, and early issues of the Bunker Hill Gazette-News. The site of the present town of Bunker Hill was once known to the early settlers of Macoupin county as Wolf Ridge. It was this named because wolves lived in the area. The choice of the name, Bunker Hill, was not due to the existence of any great elevation, but rather to the fact that there is a hill here somewhat like that upon which the famous battle of the Revolution was fought and because those who gave the name came from a section of the country in which Bunker Hill was familiar and held in great reverence. The earliest inhabitants of the community were the Peoria, Kickapoo and Winnebago Indians. One of the earliest settlers of the township was John Cooper, a native of Tennessee, who built a house on the edge of the prairie. In the neighborhood of the Springfield road, leading from Springfield to St. Louis, several settlements were made. In 1830, the first settler in this immediate vicinity was Elijah Lincoln, occupying the prairie about a mile and a half south-west of the present site of Bunker Hill. He and a Mr. Tuttle laid out the town of Lincoln, naming it in honor of Elijah Lincoln. Early in 1836, Dr. Budden built an ox mill near the settlement. In June of the same year the saw mill was dismantled of its power, i.e. the ox, in default of money loaned by Messrs. True and Tilden. After the dismantling, Mr. Colby placed his house on eight wheels, and with the two teams of oxen, moved his house (leaving only one house in Lincoln) to a new location near the Woodburn Mill. Woodburn was considerably elated at this addition as half a town came rolling in. No traces of the town of Lincoln now remain. The earliest post office was established in 1833, about a mile south of "Lincoln." About 1831, the first school house was built. In the school house, the first sermon was preached in the township by Elder William Jones, a member of the Baptist denomination, with which a great part of the early settlers of the township were connected. The first church was built by "Hard Shell" Baptists. The second was the Congregational Church at Woodburn. In 1834, Luke Knowlton, then county surveyor, entered 80 acres of land covering the central position of Bunker Hill. On Christmas day, 1835, Moses True from Salisbury, New Hampshire and John Tilden from Boston, visited the settlement in company with Robert Smith of Alton. A company was formed, with the object of laying out a town and improving the surrounding country. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_Hill%2C_Illinois