{"id":1313,"date":"2017-12-15T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2018-01-28T22:16:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T04:16:27","slug":"livingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/livingston\/","title":{"rendered":"Livingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, John and Mary Livingston owned a 297-acre farm in Olive Township. Shortly after their deaths in 1897 and 1898, rich veins of coal were discovered on their land,((Livingston Centennial Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/books\/livingston_centennial\/index.html#page\/9\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>History of Livingston, Illinois, 1905 &#8211; 2005<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<em>Madison Historical<\/em>, accessed January 29, 2018, 10.)) and their children and heirs, particularly David Livingston, laid out a coal mining town on their land in 1904.((W. 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), 613 &#8211; 614.)) The Staunton Coal Company started mining coal in 1904,((Livingston Centennial Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/books\/livingston_centennial\/index.html#page\/4\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>History of Livingston, Illinois, 1905 &#8211; 2005<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<em>Madison Historical<\/em>, accessed January 29, 2018, 4.)) and the village of Livingston was incorporated November 15, 1905.((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.))\u00a0In 1910, Livingston had a population of 1,092.((<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.)) As of the 2010 census, the village of Livingston has a population of 858.((<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/cph-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>llinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing<\/em><\/a> (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 64.))<a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Livingston.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\/Livingston.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Livingston 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 village of Livingston&#8217;s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonillinois.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 19th century, John and Mary Livingston owned a 297-acre farm in Olive Township. Shortly after their deaths in 1897 and 1898, rich veins of coal were discovered on their land,((Livingston Centennial Committee, History of Livingston, Illinois, 1905 &#8211; 2005,\u00a0Madison Historical, accessed January 29, 2018, 10.)) and their children and heirs, particularly David [&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-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","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=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}