Godfrey (Illinois)

Madison County

17-30094

Godfrey is a place in the west of the U.S. state of Illinois. Godfrey is located in Madison County and is approximately 40 km from downtown St. Louis, from which Godfrey is separated by the Mississippi River. This is the place to Metro East, the eastern part of the metropolitan region of Greater St. Louis is one. Godfrey had to stand well in 2000 16,000 inhabitants.

History

Godfrey was founded by Benjamin Godfrey (1794-1862) and named after him, in 1834 settled with his wife and eight daughters in the area then known as Scarritt 's Prairie. Godfrey was born in Massachusetts and was a wealthy businessman and former ship captain. Godfrey knew Theron Baldwin (1801-1870), a preacher and missionary who wanted to get together with other educated at Yale theologians education and faith to the settlers in the then pioneering areas of the United States. Under the influence of Baldwin and his own Neubekehrung Godfrey looked for a way to spend one's assets in the Christian sense, true to the motto [ W] has Shall it profit a man, if he Shall gain the whole world, and loose his own soul? (Mark 8:36 KJV ) So Godfrey founded in 1838 on his lands the Monticello Female Seminary, offering secondary education for young women. The motto of the boarding school was from Godfrey: If you educate a man you educate to individual; educate a woman and you educate a whole family. From 1838 to 1843, the School of Theron Baldwin was conducted. The Monticello Seminary existed as a ( two-year ) Junior College for Women until 1971. Today is operated on the former Monticello campus, the Lewis and Clark Community College. The Benjamin Godfrey Memorial Chapel, a 1854 built New England- style chapel of Monticello Seminary was recorded in 1979 in the National Register of Historic Places, and are thus protected monument.