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Olney, IL, Baseball Team, 1893. Ollie Pickering, top row, far right. Settlement of the Richland County area began around 1815 when Thaddeus Morehouse, a native of Vermont, arrived by wagon and built a log cabin along a stagecoach route that ran from Vincennes, Indiana to St. Louis.
Olney Township is located in Richland County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 10,334 and it contained 4,836 housing units. As of the 2010 census, its population was 10,334 and it contained 4,836 housing units.
Richland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States census , it had a population of 15,813. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Olney .
A map of the 77 community areas, broken down by purported regions. While the areas have official use and definition, the color groupings are unofficial, and such "regions" may be defined differently, grouped differently, or not be used at all. The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes.
The section of Olney including South Elliott Street was platted by William Elliott in 1855, shortly after the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad came through the city and sparked population growth and commercial development. Several of Olney's pioneers lived in the district, including Aaron Shaw, a U.S. Representative who gave the
The Olney Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 401 E. Main St. in Olney, Illinois.Olney's library association was founded in 1882, but the city did not have its own library building until the Carnegie Library was constructed in 1904.
Of the 102 counties of the state of Illinois, 84 are organized into civil townships, usually referred to as simply "townships" in state law. All told, Illinois has 1,428 such townships, and they are the slight majority of the state's general units of local government. [1] The legal name of each township is the form "___ Township" or "Town of ...