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The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, its early statehood period, growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary Illinois of today.
The English Settlement is the name given to a planned settlement of some 26,000 acres (110 km 2) in the Illinois Territory. It was founded by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower in the early nineteenth century. In 1816 the two men chose the location, bought the land, and eventually brought over about 200 settlers from England.
This increased immigration is historically associated with two pioneers in New York, New Jersey, and Illinois: Gjert Hovland and Knud Slogvig. The former of these came to the U.S. in 1831, being probably the first immigrant from Hardanger. He was an early promoter of emigration from southwestern Norway, especially from his own province.
The Goshen Settlement was an early American pioneer settlement in what is now Illinois, United States, located to the east of St. Louis, Missouri.The settlement was located about one mile (1.6 km) southwest of modern Glen Carbon, Illinois, at the point where Judy's Creek emerges from the bluffs into the American Bottoms, on its way to the Mississippi River.
The trail was well known among the area's natives and used for centuries. It later became known and used by European traders and white settlers who crossed the Ohio River at the Falls and followed the Trace overland to the western territories. [4] It is considered to be the most important of the early traces leading to the Illinois country. [1]
James A. Piatt, the patriarch of a prominent settler family in the early history of the county 16,714: 439 sq mi (1,137 km 2) Pike County: 149: Pittsfield: 1821: Madison, Bond, and Clark County: Zebulon Pike (1779–1813), early explorer of the American Southwest, namesake of Pikes Peak: 14,342: 831 sq mi (2,152 km 2) Pope County: 151: Golconda ...
Goshen Road was an early road that ran from Old Shawneetown, Illinois, on the Ohio River, northwest to the Goshen Settlement, near Glen Carbon, Illinois, near the Mississippi River. In the early 19th century, this was the main east/west road in Illinois.
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]