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HISTORY

 

County Seat:  Edwardsville
Year Organized: Sept. 14, 1812 
Square Miles:  741 sq. miles

 


 

 


 
 

ADJACENT COUNTIES:

1 - Jersey County (northwest)
|2 - Macoupin County (north)
3 - Montgomery County (northeast)
4 - Bond County (east)
5 - Clinton County (southeast)
6 - St. Clair County (south)
In Missouri
7 - St. Louis County, Missouri (west)
8 - St. Louis, Missouri (west)
9 - St. Charles County, Missouri (northwest)


CITIES & VILLAGES:
* Alton
* Collinsville (partly in St. Clair County)
* Edwardsville
* Granite City
* Highland
* Madison
* Troy
* Venice
* Wood River

VILLAGES:
* Alhambra
* Bethalto
* East Alton
* Fairmont city
* Glen Carbon
* Godfrey
* Grantfork
* Hamel
* Hartford
* Livingston
* Marine
* Maryville
* New Douglas
* Pontoon Beach
* Pierron
* Roxana
* South Roxana
* St. Jacob
* Williamson
* Worden

CENSUS DESIGNATED PLACES:
* Holiday Shores
* Mitchell
* Moro
* Prairietown
* Rosewood Heights

OTHER UNINCORPORATED and NISTORIC COMMUNITIES:
*Binney
* Cottage Hills
* Donkville
* Dorsey
* Fosterburg
* Gard
* Goshen Settlement
* Kaufman
* Kuhn Station
* LeClaire
* Lincoln Place
* Lumaghi Heights
* Meadowbrook
* Midway
* Newport
* Poag
* St. Morgan
* State Park Place
* Upper Alton
* Wanda

TOWNSHIPS:
* Alhambra
* Alton
* Chouteau
* Collinsville
* Edwardsville
* Fort Russell
* Foster
* Godfrey
* Granite City
* Hamel
* Helvetia
* Jarvis
* Leef
* Marine
* Moro
* Nameoki
* New Douglas
* Olive
* Omphghent
* Pin  Oak
* Saline
* St. Jacob
* Venice
* Wood River

ISLANDS:
* Chouteau Island
* Gabaret Island
* Mosenthein Island

HISTORIC SETTLEMENT
* Camp Dubois

 

OBITUARIES:
Source: Daily Illinois State Journal - Springfield, Illinois - Pg. 6
Dated: Nov. 8, 1904
Illinois Deaths

Mrs. Katherine Walsch.
     Alton, Nov. 6. - Special. - Mrs. Katherine Walsch, aged 70 years, widow of Thomas Walsch, and for twenty years a resident of Alton, died yesterday.  Three daughters survive - Misses Katherine and Jennie of Alton and Margaret, a nun in New York city.

 


 

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