The Palmyra Town Hall in Gap Grove, Illinois, was constructed circa 1850 for township and village meetings, community gatherings, dances, and religious services. According to the Sterling Daily Gazette Diamond Jubilee, a community tradition states that the curving Palmyra Road, which fronts the hall, was laid out in the 1840s by settler Hezekiah Brink. His method was to attach a tree branch to the back of an ox cart and drag it along, creating a line in the earth that was later improved as a road