{"id":1340,"date":"2017-12-15T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2020-04-13T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:34:00","slug":"granite-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/granite-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Granite City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Granite City was founded March 9, 1896 by German immigrant brothers Frederick and William Niedringhaus. The brothers established the city as a steel manufacturing town that specialized in kitchen utensils.((Flagg, James S., editor,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/our150years1812100flag#page\/60\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our 150 Years, 1812-1962<\/a><\/em>. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitecity.illinois.gov\/community\/history_of_granite_city\/part3.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;History of Granite City: Part III,&#8221;<\/a>Granite City website. Retrieved Dec. 2017.)) By 1900, Granite City had a population of 3,122 people.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1901\/dec\/vol-01-population.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Census Reports Volume I: Population Part I<\/em><\/a> (Washington: United States Census Office, 1901), 126.)) As of the 2010 census, Granite City has a population of 29,849.((<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.))<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Granite City.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\/Granite_City.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Granite City 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 Granite City&#8217;s\u00a0website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitecity.illinois.gov\/\" 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\/1657\">Gale Cuvar Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"article-oral-histories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/1652\">Joyce Taff Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granite City was founded March 9, 1896 by German immigrant brothers Frederick and William Niedringhaus. The brothers established the city as a steel manufacturing town that specialized in kitchen utensils.((Flagg, James S., editor,\u00a0Our 150 Years, 1812-1962. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61;\u00a0&#8220;History of Granite City: Part III,&#8221;Granite City website. Retrieved Dec. 2017.)) By 1900, Granite [&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],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}