Edwardsville
October 2, 2017
Last modified: April 13, 2020
In 1805 Thomas Kirkpatrick was the original white settler of Edwardsville and named it in honor of Ninian Edwards, the Territorial Governor of Illinois. Edwardsville city was incorporated on February 23, 1819,1 and by 1840 the population of Edwardsville reached 616 inhabitants.2 As of the 2010 census, the city of Edwardsville has a population of 24,293.3
Edwardsville in 2017
From the Maps & Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office
To access the city of Edwardsville’s website, follow this link.
For more, see these Oral Histories
- Carol and John Fritsche Oral History Interview
- Edward Hall Oral History Interview
- Gary Niebur Oral History Interview
- Hal Patton Oral History Interview
- Herman Shaw Oral History Interview
Endnotes
| 1. | arrow_upward | Flagg, James S., editor, Our 150 Years, 1812-1962. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61. |
| 2. | arrow_upward | 1840 Census: Sixth Census or Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States (Washington: Blair and Rives, 1841), 386 – 7. |
| 3. | arrow_upward | Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 62. |
Edwardsville Articles (22 Total)
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Abraham Lincoln’s Visits to Madison CountyApril 23, 2018 by Stephen Hansen |
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Charles Gravius Memorial LibraryNovember 17, 2016 by Jessica Mills |
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Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7February 14, 2017 by Lesley Thomson |
Edwardsville-Glen Carbon Community PartnershipMay 8, 2019 by Kendyl Schmidt |
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Granite City Community Unit School District #9February 14, 2017 by Lesley Thomson |
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LeclaireDecember 21, 2017 by Cindy Reinhardt |
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Lincoln School in EdwardsvilleNovember 9, 2016 by Nichol Allen |
Cite this article: Nichol Allen, "Edwardsville," Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive for Madison County, Illinois, last modified April 13, 2020, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/encyclopedia/edwardsville/.
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