{"id":1354,"date":"2017-12-15T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2018-01-30T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T19:54:30","slug":"wanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda is an unicorporated community in north-eastern Chouteau Township east of South Roxana. Originally called Old Salem, the area was the site of a post office starting in 1859. E. K. Fahnestock was the first postmaster, and he opened a general store in 1874. Following his death in 1900, his nephew LeRoy Fahnestock took over the store and postmaster duties.((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), 488.))\u00a0 The Wanda post office closed in 1916.((<a class=\"external text ext-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.postalhistory.com\/postoffices.asp?task=display&amp;state=IL&amp;county=Madison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cMadison County\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Jim Forte Postal History<\/em><span class=\"reference-accessdate\">. Retrieved\u00a0<span class=\"nowrap\">30 January<\/span>\u00a02017<\/span>.))<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3107.9585024619355!2d-90.04103852849948!3d38.8334111983626!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x87df59cce93e860d%3A0xb2c1108f67adbb94!2sWanda%2C+Fort+Russell+Township%2C+IL+62084!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1513479534981\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda is an unicorporated community in north-eastern Chouteau Township east of South Roxana. Originally called Old Salem, the area was the site of a post office starting in 1859. E. K. Fahnestock was the first postmaster, and he opened a general store in 1874. Following his death in 1900, his nephew LeRoy Fahnestock took over [&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-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","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=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}