The blacksmith shop was open in the 1940's. Leanderville was a store and post office in Sec 17. Jesse Beer opened both in 1892. Jesse married not long after 1892. The post office closed in 1906, the store was opened until the 1950's.
Today there is but one dwelling there.
Little Chicago was a suqatter's camp built during the 1930's. A family who had once lived in RC came back from Chicago during the depression. The settled in Sec 4 in the valley of Degoinia Creek. The farmer who owned the land let them stay, so they wrote to relatives in Chicago and others came. By 1936 all these related families moved to Rookwood or Chester.