{"id":1330,"date":"2017-12-15T15:13:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2020-04-13T13:28:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:28:31","slug":"glen-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/glen-carbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1801, Colonel Samuel Judy was the first American to settle the area that would become Glen Carbon. The region at the time was known as the Goshen Settlement.((<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/historyofmadison00brin#page\/453\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><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), 454.)) Glen Carbon was incorporated as a village on June 6, 1892 as a coal mining town and a hub for railroads.\u00a0By 1900, Glen Carbon had a population of 1,348 people.((W. T. Norton, ed.,<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idaillinois.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/edpl\/id\/11892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois, and Its People, 1812 to 1912<\/a>. <\/em>(Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), 618.)) As of the 2010 census, the village of Glen Carbon has a population of 12,934.((<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/cph-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing<\/a> <\/em>(Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 126.))<a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Glen Carbon.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\/Glen_Carbon.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glen Carbon in 2017<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.madison.il.us\/departments\/information_technology\/geographic_spatial_data.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maps &amp; Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To access the\u00a0village of Glen Carbon&#8217;s\u00a0website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glen-carbon.il.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>For more, see these Oral Histories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article-oral-histories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/730\">John Elliff Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"article-oral-histories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/1656\">Beth Warnecke Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1801, Colonel Samuel Judy was the first American to settle the area that would become Glen Carbon. The region at the time was known as the Goshen Settlement.((History of Madison County, Illinois, Illustrated. With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers\u00a0(Edwardsville: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), 454.)) Glen Carbon was incorporated as [&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-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","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=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}