{"id":1299,"date":"2017-12-15T14:25:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2018-01-18T14:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:39:33","slug":"highland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/highland\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The region of Highland was first settled in large numbers by Swiss immigrants in 1831, who called the settlement New Switzerland. The town of Highland was platted in 1837, receiving the name from General Joseph Semple. Sempe, being of Scottish descent, named the town for the Scottish Highlands and the mountainous regions of Switzerland.((Peggy Bellm, <a href=\"http:\/\/highlandil.gov\/Public_Documents\/HighlandIL_WebDocs\/History_of_Highland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cHistory of Highland,\u201d<\/a> <em>City of Highland. <\/em>Retrieved Dec. 2017;\u00a0W. T. Norton, ed.,<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idaillinois.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/edpl\/id\/11892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois, and Its People, 1812 to 1912<\/a>. <\/em>(Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), 529 &#8211; 530.))\u00a0 By 1850, Highland had a population of 704 people.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1853\/dec\/1850a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Seventh Census of the United States: 1850<\/em><\/a> (Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853), 712.)) As of the 2010 census, the city of Highland has a population of 9,919.((<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.))<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Highland.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\/Highland.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highland 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\u00a0city of Highland&#8217;s\u00a0website, <a href=\"http:\/\/highlandil.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The region of Highland was first settled in large numbers by Swiss immigrants in 1831, who called the settlement New Switzerland. The town of Highland was platted in 1837, receiving the name from General Joseph Semple. Sempe, being of Scottish descent, named the town for the Scottish Highlands and the mountainous regions of Switzerland.((Peggy Bellm, [&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-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","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=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}