{"id":1282,"date":"2017-12-15T11:17:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T17:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T17:26:40","slug":"dorsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/dorsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dorsey is an unincorporated community in Madison County located in Moro Township north of Bethalto. It was named for frontier settler Samuel L. Dorsey,((Edward Callary, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ZvHgwa-XImcC&amp;lpg=PA96&amp;pg=PA96#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\"><em>Place Names of Illinois<\/em><\/a>. <span class=\"_xdb\">\u00a0(<\/span><span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\">Champaign:\u00a0<\/span>University of Illinois Press, 2010), 96.)) and it has had a post office since 1857.((<a class=\"external text ext-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.postalhistory.com\/postoffices.asp?task=display&amp;state=IL&amp;county=Madison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Madison County&#8221;<\/a>. <em>Jim Forte Postal History<\/em><span class=\"reference-accessdate\">. Retrieved\u00a0<span class=\"nowrap\">15 December<\/span>\u00a02017<\/span>.))<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d24814.602866392353!2d-90.0190027942454!3d38.97365559175567!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x87df5ff64407e2c3%3A0xb55d97347d70828d!2sDorsey%2C+IL+62021!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1513358778207\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorsey is an unincorporated community in Madison County located in Moro Township north of Bethalto. It was named for frontier settler Samuel L. Dorsey,((Edward Callary, Place Names of Illinois. \u00a0(Champaign:\u00a0University of Illinois Press, 2010), 96.)) and it has had a post office since 1857.((&#8220;Madison County&#8221;. Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved\u00a015 December\u00a02017.))<\/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-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}