Edwardsville (Illinois)

Madison County

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Edwardsville is the third oldest city in the U.S. state of Illinois. It has a population of 24 293 ( 2010 census ). It is located 29 km un Southern Illinois, northeast of the city of St. Louis in the Metro East, the eastern part of the metropolitan region of Greater St. Louis. Edwardsville is one of St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area and is the county seat ( county seat ) of Madison County. The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is a public university in the city.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, from 2010 onwards, the City has a total area of 52.2 km ², of which 50.7 km ² of land and 1.6 km ² omitted ( = 2.97 %) to water. Through the city once ran several railway lines in the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Norfolk and Western Railroad. In the eastern part of the urban area is the Dunlop Lake, which is drained by the Mooney Creek. This flows north of the city in the Cahokia Creek, and thus are Edwardsville and the surrounding area in the catchment area of the Mississippi River. The State Routes 143, 157 and 159 intersect at the junction of the running east -west direction Vandalia Street with the running in the north -south Main Street, but the road network is irregular and not oriented to the north. Interstate 55 runs east outside the urban area, about five kilometers from the center. South of Edwardsville serves Interstate 270 as a connection to I-55 and Interstate 70, the 255 leads west of Edwardsville in the north-south trending Illinois State Route 255 south to Interstate

History

Edwardsville was originally incorporated in 1818 and is the third oldest city in Illinois. The first settlers of European descent arrived in 1805 was Thomas Kirkpatrick, who then docked the settlement and served as justice of the peace. He named the town after his friend, Ninian Edwards, the former Territorialgouverneuer was not founded until 1818 the State of Illinois.

The Post Office opened on 21 November 1821. Decided in 1890 by industrialist NO Nelson from St. Louis for a piece of country south of Edwardsville to build a factory fittings and built the factory housing Leclaire, which is named after the French economist Edme -Jean Leclaire. Unlike other plant communities such as Pullman in Chicago, emphasis was placed on in this factory settlement that living here workers and their families to access prosperity and quality of life.

1934 Leclaire was incorporated into the City of Edwardsville. The neighborhood has a park with a lake, a baseball field and the Edwardsville Children's Museum in the former schoolhouse. Various buildings of the factory, who founded Nelson, have been renovated and converted to NO Nelson Campus of Lewis and Clark Community College. The area was included as a historical district in the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1983, Edwards also Villes historic Saint Louis Street was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The beginnings of this area of the city date back to the year 1809. This historic district includes about 50 houses over a length of about one mile, which emerged between the mid-19th century and the early years of the 20th century. The protection and preservation of the Saint Louis Street is regulated by the Historic Saint Louis Street Association.

Five governors of Illinois lived in Edwardsville: besides the already mentioned Ninian Edwards, the 1809 Territorial Governor and 1826-1830 within had the Office of the Governor, these were the 1822 elected governor opponents of slavery Edward Coles, who was born in Pennsylvania and from 1830 to 1834 incumbent John Reynolds, the reigning from 1842 to 1846 Thomas Ford and Charles Deneen, who was from 1909 to 1913 governor of the state.

The future President Abraham Lincoln delivered twice in Edwardsville on, even as a lawyer in the 1814 -built Court House and on September 11, 1858 as a speaker in front of the 1857 -built Court House. The present courthouse is a square four-storey neoclassical building with a facade of white marble with a six-story rear and built in the years 1913-15. Former President Bill Clinton Hlet on 30 January 2008 in Dunham Theater of the University delivered a speech in the primary campaign of his wife, Hillary Clinton.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Hedy Burress, Actress
  • Charles Deneen, politicians, from 1905 to 1913 the 25th Governor of Illinois
  • Billie Poole, jazz and blues singer

Media

In Edwardsville the factory daily published newspaper Edwardsville Intelligencer and Wednesdays published weekly The Edwardsville Journal appear. WSIE -FM at 88.7 MHz, the radio station of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Receivable are also the most radio stations from St. Louis, Missouri.

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