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Black Hawk War: Native Victory 1+ United States vs Kickapoo: St. Vrain Massacre: May 19, 1832 Near present-day Pearl City, Illinois: Black Hawk War: Native Victory 4 United States vs Ho-Chunk or Sauk and Fox: Plum River raid: May 21, 1832 Near present-day Savanna, Illinois: Black Hawk War: 0 United States vs Sauk or Fox: Battle of Kellogg's ...
Beardstown was first settled by Thomas Beard in 1819; he erected a log cabin at the edge of the Illinois River, from which he traded with the local Native Americans and ran a ferry. The town was laid out in 1827 and was incorporated as a city in 1896. During the Black Hawk War in 1832, it was a base of supplies for the Illinois troops. [8]
It is located on Illinois Route 97, 4.5 miles (7 km) northwest of Springfield. [2] The rural hamlet is the site of the Bradfordton Co-Op, a grain elevator. It was once the site of a whistle stop on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line from Springfield to Beardstown.
There were 2,716 housing units at an average density of 92.82 per square mile (35.84/km 2). The racial makeup of the township was 54.06% White, 10.25% African American, 1.56% Native American, 1.44% Asian, 0.49% Pacific Islander, 22.00% from other races, and 10.19% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 37.83% of the population.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.16% of the population. There were 219 households, out of which 42.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.30% were married couples living together, 11.42% had a female householder with no spouse present, and 19.18% were non-families. 7.80% of all households were made up of individuals ...
The population density was 36.3 inhabitants per square mile (14.0/km 2). There were 5,836 housing units at an average density of 15.5 per square mile (6.0/km 2 ). [ 4 ] The racial makeup of the county was 86.3% white, 3.1% black or African American, 0.3% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, 8.7% from other races, and 1.4% from two or more races.
Illinois Route 125 (IL-125) is a major 37.10 miles (59.71 km) [1] highway in the central portion of the U.S. state of Illinois. Illinois 125 runs east from the concurrent U.S. Route 67 and Illinois Route 100 near Beardstown to Illinois Route 97 in Farmingdale , west of Springfield .
ZIP Code(s) 60067, 60010. Area code: 847: FIPS code: ... Inverness has a total area of 6.69 square miles (17.33 km 2), ... During the early post-war years, the ...