1893
White-Tailed Deer, once flooding the Washington landscape, had been so over-hunted by 1893 that when one was spotted west of town, the event made the newspapers for multiple weeks.
Natural gas wells were struck in multiple places in town for the first time.
John H. Anthony was elected Mayor of Washington over George Cress and William Griffith.
Mayor Anthony gave the police the authority to jail any suspicious characters seen after dark, and another law saying all unmuzzled dogs would be shot on sight.
Bids were open for constructing a bridge across Farm Creek connecting the two cemeteries, but the City had run out of money for 1893 so the project was pushed into the next year.
The liquor ordinance was amended to allow a saloons on the south side of the square, previously prohibited.
Washingtonian Philo Miles was elected Mayor of Peoria.
George Heyl moved his stock farm to its famous location at 811 N. Main Street.