{"id":1136,"date":"2017-12-06T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:26:09","slug":"alhambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/alhambra\/","title":{"rendered":"Alhambra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally from Eastern Kentucky, William Hinch is considered the first American to make a home within the boundaries of Alhambra Township.((<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/historyofmadison00brin#page\/550\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>History of Madison County, Illinois, Illustrated. With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Edwardsville: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), 550.)) The village of Alhambra was laid out by Dr. Louis Sheppard in 1850,((<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/historyofmadison00brin#page\/553\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ibid.<\/a>, 553.)) and was incorporated April 5, 1884.((Flagg, James S., editor,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/our150years1812100flag#page\/60\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our 150 Years, 1812-1962<\/a><\/em>. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61.)) By 1870 it had a population of 101.((Francis A. Walker, compiler, <a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1872\/dec\/1870c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ninth Census \u2013 Volume 3: The Statistics of the Wealth and Industry of the United States<\/em><\/a> (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872), 115.)) The villages of Greencastle and Alhambra were united and incorporated on April 5, 1884.((\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.villageofalhambra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alhambra History.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0Web. Accessed Nov. 2017.)) As of the 2010 census, the Village of Alhambra has 681 residents.((<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/cph-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\/Alhambra.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-473 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Alhambra.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alhambra in 2017<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.madison.il.us\/departments\/information_technology\/geographic_spatial_data.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maps &amp; Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To access the\u00a0village of Alhambra&#8217;s\u00a0website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villageofalhambra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally from Eastern Kentucky, William Hinch is considered the first American to make a home within the boundaries of Alhambra Township.((History of Madison County, Illinois, Illustrated. With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers\u00a0(Edwardsville: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), 550.)) The village of Alhambra was laid out by Dr. Louis Sheppard in 1850,((Ibid., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"community.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"coauthors":[54],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","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=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}