Monroe County, Illinois
Monroe County is very unique and has many towns and cities in it that have very fasinating facts about them. Some of the towns and cities are Glasgow City, Renault, Chalfin Bridge, and Waterloo. Even though the towns have fasinating facts, the facts about just the county in general and where it was given the name from is also very interesting. The population and type of people in the population can be very unusual but interesting also. Fasinating and interesting, the population and the facts about Monroe County and its towns is something that you could really get interested into researching.
Facts about Monroe County
Some very interesting historical facts and population facts about Monroe County are the fact that is was named after the United States’s fifth president, James Monroe. Every ten years the population increased. In 1900 it was 13,847 and by the year 2000 it was 27, 619. That is almost twice the amount it was in 1900 (“Monroe County, Illinois” para.1.1,1.2 ). The parenting counties of Monroe County are Randolph county and St. Clair County. Monroe County has five neighboring counties if you include it’s parents The counties are Jefferson County, MO: Randolph County, IL; Ste. Genevieve County, MO; St. Louis County, MO; and St. Clair County, IL (“Monroe County, Illinois” para. 1.2, 1.3 ). In Monroe County there is four public library’s. The library’s are as follows: Columbia Public Library, Hecker Public Library, Morrison-Talbott Library, and the Valmeyer Public Library District (“Monroe County, Illinois” para.2.17.4).
Quick Facts on the population, geography, and sales of Monroe County, IL
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Works Cited
Combined History of Randolph, Monroe and Perry Counties, Illinois: With Illustrations Descriptive of Their Scenery and Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: J.L. McDonough, 1883. Print.
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Clay County was created by the Tennessee General Assembly on June 16, 1870. The county was formed from the secluded northern parts of Jackson County and Overton County. The citizens believed that, with this new county, they would have more opportunities to participate in self-government rather than continuing to be a part of larger county with which they were only connected to by a few trails and no roads. The first session of the county court assembled in Mary Robert’s store in the Butler’s Landing Community where the city of Celina was chosen as the county seat by a narrow margin.1 The name Clay County originates from American statesman, member of the United States Senate, and United States Speaker of the House Henry Clay.2
Cahokia and Moundsville are two very similar cities but in different parts of the country. First going into Cahokia; the name “Cahokia” came from an aboriginal people that lived in the city at about 17th century. It is located in southern Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville, right across from the Mississippi River. Cahokia was at its peak from 1050 to 1200 AD with a highest population of about ten to twenty thousand people. This city was spread over 6-square miles. Way bigger than the city of Moundsville. Moundsville is a large settlement of Mississippian culture on the Black Warrior River in central Alabama. This settlement was heavily populated with roughly about ten thousand people and took over almost more than three hundred and seventy acres and was built on a bluff over looking the Mississippi River.
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James Monroe will always be best known by his Doctrine, but what most people don’t know is that most of the Monroe Doctrine was written by the Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams. Also, Adams was the one who told him to do it. The Monroe Doctrine was originally a letter to Congress in 1823. The document stated that it was the end of colonizing the Americas. When James and Elizabeth Monroe retired, they moved to their Virginia estate called Oak Hill.
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Although early nineteenth century Kansas was vast in territory, the land was mostly unpopulated. This cheap abundant land along with the dream of a better life lured farmers from the east to start their lives in Kansas. Many people were driven to pack their belongings and start their westward bound journey. Floyd Benjamin St...
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Currently, Will County consists of a number of townships, which include Channahon, Crete, Custer, DuPage, Florence, Frankfort, Green Garden, Homer, Jackson, Joliet, Lockport, Manhattan, Monee, New Lenox, Peotone, Plainfield, Reed, Troy, Washington, Wesley, Wheatland, Will, Wilmington, and Wilton. Among these townships, the county encompasses a number of cities. The towns and cities that lie in the boundaries of the county include parts of Aurora, Beecher, parts of Bolingbrook, Braidwood, Channahon, parts of Coal City, Crest Hill, Crete, parts of Diamond, Elwood, Frankfort, Godley, Homer Glen, Joliet, parts of Lemont, Lockport, Manhattan, parts of Minooka, Mokena, Monee, parts of Naperville, New Lenox, parts of Orland Park, parts of Park Forest, Peotone, Plainfield, Rockdale, Romeoville, parts of Sauk Village, Shorewood, Steger, Symerton, parts of Tinley Park, parts of University Park, Wilmington, and Woodridge; not to mention a handful of unincorporated areas including Andres, Crystal Lawns, Pue, Fairmont, Frankfort Square, Goodings Grove, Goodenow, Ingalls Park, Lakewood Shores, Preston Heights, Ridge...
A big issue Monroe tried to act on was British impressments, which is the practice of capturing U.S. sailors and making them serve in the British navy. This caused a slight rift between President Jefferson, Secretary of State Madison, and Monroe, after the two didn’t see the means of signing a treaty that Monroe thought would make the relationship between the two countries better. Monroe finally came to an understanding, repairing the broken bond between the three friends (Minister to France and Britain). This would pay off when newly appointed President James Madison would give the position of Secretary of State to James Monroe (Secretary of State and Secretary of War).
In 1774, as the citizens of the thirteen colonies thought about declaring their independence from their mother country, England, the people of West Springfield were celebrating their independence from their mother town of Springfield. They requested incorporation of their town from the General Court for two reasons: a growing discontent with the representation that Springfield chose to send to the General Court and with the difficulties of geography. What was then called the Great River Connecticut separated the parish of West Springfield from Springfield making voting and attending town meetings difficult. On February 23rd, 1774, the Act of Incorporation was approved and West Springfield became a town.
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