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American Revolutionary War: US Victory 0 United States vs Great Britain: Battle of St. Louis: May 25, 1780 Present-day Cahokia, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri: Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish/US Victory 25+ United States and Spain vs Great Britain and Indian Nations: Battle of Fort Dearborn: August 15, 1812 Present-day Chicago, Illinois: War of 1812
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.
ZIP code: 62622 [1] Area code: 217: GNIS feature ID: 404623 [2] ... United States. Bluff Springs is located on Illinois Route 125, east of Beardstown. References
Camp Grant was a U.S. Army facility located in the southern outskirts of Rockford, Illinois named in honor of American Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant.Camp Grant covered an area of 5,600 acres during World War I and 3,200 acres during World War II, and was in operation from 1917 to 1946.
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 .