{"id":1350,"date":"2017-12-15T15:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2018-01-29T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:40:16","slug":"carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carpenter is an unincorporated community in Hamel Township. In 1877, the Wabash railroad built a station and named the area Carpenter. That same year, John F. Opel laid out the town, and the plat was recorded May 9, 1877. A number of grain houses were built around the station, as well as a post office.((<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/historyofmadison00brin#page\/417\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><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), 533.))<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d14771.849204950835!2d-89.90522105410723!3d38.891995622846906!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x8875f170ee6e6d13%3A0x4b1911c08370b06a!2sCarpenter%2C+Hamel+Township%2C+IL+62025!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1513632667941\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carpenter is an unincorporated community in Hamel Township. In 1877, the Wabash railroad built a station and named the area Carpenter. That same year, John F. Opel laid out the town, and the plat was recorded May 9, 1877. A number of grain houses were built around the station, as well as a post office.((History [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"community.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}