{"id":1168,"date":"2017-12-08T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2018-02-26T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T00:39:03","slug":"venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The township of Venice was settled by Americans as early as 1804.((<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/historyofmadison00brin#page\/520\/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), 520.)) In 1841 the village was given the name Venice by Dr. Cornelius Campbell, who, along with Charles F. Stamps laid out and plotted the town.((<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/historyofmadison00brin#page\/520\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ibid.<\/a>, 522.)) By 1880, Venice had a population of 612.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1883\/dec\/vol-01-population.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883), 139.)) Venice was officially incorporated February 5, 1897.((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.)) In 1950, Venice reached the height of its population with 6,226 people.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1952\/dec\/population-vol-01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Report of the Seventeenth Decennial Census of the United States, Census of Population: 1950, Volume I Number of Inhabitants<\/em><\/a> (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1952), 13-31.)) As of 2010 census, Venice has 1,890 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), 64.))<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Venice.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\/Venice.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venice 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The township of Venice was settled by Americans as early as 1804.((History of Madison County, Illinois, Illustrated. With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers\u00a0(Edwardsville: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), 520.)) In 1841 the village was given the name Venice by Dr. Cornelius Campbell, who, along with Charles F. Stamps laid out and [&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-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","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=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}