{"id":1272,"date":"2017-12-13T23:08:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2017-12-14T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:54:32","slug":"hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/hartford\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hartford is a village in Madison County. Prior to their western expedition, Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1803 to 1804 within the present-day village limits of Hartford. Hartford was incorporated March 9, 1920,((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.)) and by 1930 had a population of 1,566.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1931\/dec\/1930a-vol-01-population.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Population Volume I<\/em><\/a> (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931), 303.))<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> As of the 2010 census, Hartford village has 1,429 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), 128.))<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Hartford.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\/Hartford.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hartford 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 Hartford&#8217;s\u00a0website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartfordillinois.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartford is a village in Madison County. Prior to their western expedition, Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1803 to 1804 within the present-day village limits of Hartford. Hartford was incorporated March 9, 1920,((Flagg, James S., editor,\u00a0Our 150 Years, 1812-1962. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61.)) and by 1930 had a population of 1,566.((Fifteenth [&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":[54,56],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}