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1826 January 18 – Vermilion County is created. 1826 March – The county is divided into two townships, Carroll in the south and Ripley in the north. 1826 – James Haworth plats the town of Georgetown. 1827 January – The Salt Works, on the Salt River the west of the mouth of the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River, is the first settlement.
Vermilion County in Illinois and Vermillion County in Indiana are two of twenty-two counties or parishes in the United States with the same name to border each other across state lines. [11] According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 901.28 square miles (2,334.3 km 2 ), of which 898.37 square miles (2,326.8 km 2 ) (or 99.68% ...
1822—God's Acre Cemetery, the first cemetery in Vermilion County was established. First meeting of county commissioners held at Butler's home. First Circuit Court held at home of Asa Elliott, friend of James Butler. 1823—First mill built and used in Vermilion and Champaign Counties, called a "corncracker" by James Butler.
Until 1988, the building housed the post office on its first floor and federal court operations on its upper two floors. After a new courthouse opened in Urbana, bankruptcy cases continued to be heard in Danville until 2013, when the building was mostly vacated. In June 2017, the federal government transferred ownership to Vermilion County. [3]
The first post office was established in May of the same year in the house of Amos Williams, organizer of Vermilion and Edgar Counties and a prominent Danville citizen. Williams and Beckwith drew up the first plat map; the city was named after Dan Beckwith at Williams' suggestion, although Beckwith suggested the names "Williamsburg" and ...
The First National Bank Building, known locally as the Bresee Tower, is a historic bank building at 2-4 N. Vermilion Street in Danville, Illinois.The building was constructed in 1918 for the First National Bank, which was established in 1857 and had operated in another building at the same site since 1867.
VERMILION CO., Ill. (WCIA) — A former Danville resident is heading to prison after he pleaded guilty to possession of controlled substance with intent to deliver. On Oct. 30, Richard Tyler, 47 ...
The Vermilion County bombings were a series of three bombings in the towns of Danville and Oakwood, Illinois that killed two people and injured 34. The bombings were committed by Richard Dean White, an Army veteran and member of the Danville church he targeted in the second bombing.