{"id":1024,"date":"2017-10-02T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2020-04-13T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:25:20","slug":"edwardsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/edwardsville\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwardsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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,((Flagg, James S., editor,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/our150years1812100flag#page\/60\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our 150 Years, 1812-1962<\/a><\/em>. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61.))\u00a0and by 1840 the population of Edwardsville reached 616 inhabitants.((<em><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1840 Census: Sixth Census or Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Washington: Blair and Rives, 1841), 386 &#8211; 7.)) As of the 2010 census, the city of Edwardsville has a population of 24,293.((<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/cph-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing<\/a> <\/em>(Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 62.))<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Edwardsville.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-473 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Edwardsville.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwardsville in 2017<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.madison.il.us\/departments\/information_technology\/geographic_spatial_data.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maps &amp; Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To access the\u00a0city of Edwardsville&#8217;s\u00a0website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofedwardsville.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>For more, see these Oral Histories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article-oral-histories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/1687\">Carol and John Fritsche Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"article-oral-histories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/534\">Edward Hall Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"article-oral-histories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/906\">Gary Niebur Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"article-oral-histories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/902\">Hal Patton Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"article-oral-histories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/903\">Herman Shaw Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,((Flagg, James S., editor,\u00a0Our 150 Years, 1812-1962. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61.))\u00a0and by 1840 the population of Edwardsville reached 616 inhabitants.((1840 Census: Sixth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"community.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"coauthors":[54],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}