{"id":1358,"date":"2017-12-15T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2020-04-13T13:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:31:38","slug":"east-alton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/east-alton\/","title":{"rendered":"East Alton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Alton was incorporated as a village on September 4, 1893 as a railway junction and industrial center.((Thanks to East Alton Village Clerk Lori Palmer for clarification regarding the incorporation date of East Alton.)) The town was platted in 1858 by George W. Carr and George A. Smith. Previously the area was also referred to as Milton, Emerald, Wann or Wanda Station, and Alton Junction.((<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/historyofmadison00brin#page\/419\/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), 420 &#8211; 421.)) By 1900, East Alton had a population of 454 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, the village of East Alton has a population of 6,301.((<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), 64.))<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\/East Alton.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\/East_Alton.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Alton 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 East Alton&#8217;s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastaltonvillage.org\/index.cfm\" 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\/1681\">Kevin Hale Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"article-oral-histories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/1078\">David Miller Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Alton was incorporated as a village on September 4, 1893 as a railway junction and industrial center.((Thanks to East Alton Village Clerk Lori Palmer for clarification regarding the incorporation date of East Alton.)) The town was platted in 1858 by George W. Carr and George A. Smith. Previously the area was also referred to [&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-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","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=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}