Greenville, Illinois For other places with the same name, see Greenville .
Greenville, Illinois Bond County Courthouse is positioned in Greenville's enhance square.
Greenville, Illinois is positioned in Illinois Greenville, Illinois Location of Greenville inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Greenville, Illinois Greenville is a town/city in Bond County, Illinois, United States, 43 miles (69 km) east of St.
Greenville jubilated its Bicentennial in 2015 as one of the earliest communities in Illinois. It is home to Greenville College, the Richard Bock Museum, the American Farm Heritage Museum, the Armed Forces Museum and the Demoulin Museum and a federal prison, Federal Correctional Institution, Greenville (FCI Greenville). It is also home to internationally known companies, including Nevco Scoreboard, the biggest privately owned scoreboard business in the world, and De - Moulin Brothers, the world's earliest and biggest manufacturer of band uniforms. Greenville was established by George Davidson in 1815 in what was then the Illinois Territory, when he purchased 160 acres (65 ha) along the bluff overlooking Little Shoal Creek, in what was then still part of Madison County.
Davidson assembled a tavern near the present-day intersection of Main and Sixth streets, and by 1816 he was selling individual lots. The federal government established its first federal postal service in Greenville in 1819.
Some think the town was titled after Greenville, North Carolina, which had been titled after Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. Others say that Greenville was titled by early settler Thomas White because it was "so green and nice".
A third possibility is that Greenville was titled after Green P.
Greenville became the governmental center of county of Bond County in 1821.
Greenville College was established as Almira College, a women's college, in 1855.
Long "declared the beginning of Almira and Greenville ran alongside, for both were established on prayer." Women in Bond County could vote for the first time in 1914. When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches in Greenville in 1858 amid a campaign for the United States Senate, Douglas said: "Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great and supreme gratification and pleasure to see this vast concourse of citizens assembled to hear me upon this my first visit to Old Bond." The Illinois State Register reported of the occasion: "I've seen many gatherings in Old Bond county but I never saw anything equal to this and I never expect to." The Greenville Public Library was established as a Carnegie library and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hogue Hall at Greenville College also appeared on the National Register (it was completed in 2008). Illinois native Ronald Reagan visited Greenville on the campaign trail in 1980 and gave a speech on the street in front of the courthouse; his visit is memorialized by a plaque. Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois propel as President in November 2008, visited Greenville while campaigning for his Senate seat in 2004, in a visit hosted by the Bond County Democrats. While Greenville once hosted three newspapers, The Item, The Sun, and The Advocate, it now has only the twice-weekly Greenville Advocate.
The Advocate is the earliest company in Bond County and one of the earliest newspapers in Illinois. Original Advocate owner Jediah Alexander was friends with Abraham Lincoln and instrumental in bringing Lincoln to Greenville for a visit. Wirz, and a glove factory, the Greenville Glove Manufacturing Co. In the early 1900s, Greenville had its own power company, Greenville Electric Gas and Power Company, which later was bought by Illinois Power and Light Service. The Watson family directed a pharmacy in Greenville for over 125 years, since 1881; it was sold in 2006, but still maintains the name Watson's Drug Store.
Greenville is positioned near the center of Bond County at 38 53 N 89 24 W (38.8895, -89.4036). U.S.
Greenville is also positioned on Illinois Route 127, which is a primary north-south route connecting Southern Illinois to Springfield.
East of Greenville it follows Illinois Route 140, and west it follows U.S.
When federal cash for the road ran out in 1840 at Vandalia, 19 miles east of Greenville, the State Legislature refused to fund it further.
According to the 2010 census, Greenville has a total region of 6.19 square miles (16.03 km2), all land. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 82.40 percent White, 15.44 percent African American, 0.62 percent Native American, 0.47 percent Asian, 0.37 percent from other competitions, and 0.69 percent from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 15.9 percent under the age of 18, 18.1 percent from 18 to 24, 32.7 percent from 25 to 44, 18.7 percent from 45 to 64, and 14.6 percent who were 65 years of age or older.
Greenville has had a mayor and town/city council form of government since 1957.
Government officials in Greenville include Mayor Alan Gaffner and City Manager Dave Willey.
In 1992, private Free Methodist college Greenville College jubilated its 100th anniversary and was featured on NBC's Today Show.
Enrollment topped 1,000 students for the first time in the college's history in 2006. The current student body at Greenville College contains over 1,500 students; most are from various Christian denominations. The college presently offers undergraduate degrees in over 50 different programs of study and graduate degrees in education.
Greenville also hosts a satellite center for Kaskaskia College, a improve college headquartered in Centralia, Illinois. In addition to its colleges, Greenville is home to Bond County Community Unit #2 High School (usually known as Greenville High School), home of the Comets.
Students from the neighboring suburbs of Pocahontas and Sorento are part of Bond County School District #2 with Greenville students and attend high school in Greenville.
Greenville Junior High, home of the Bluejays, and Greenville Elementary School, home of the Rockets, round out Greenville's small-town schools.
During the 2006 school year, Greenville Elementary was one of only 25 schools chose nationwide as a NASA Explorer school, a three-year partnership with NASA to promote math, science and space exploration. The 2010 Bluejays baseball team won second place in the Class 3 - A State Baseball championship, finishing the season with a 24-3 record.
In addition to long-running Greenville journal The Advocate, , Greenville's airways broadcast WGEL covers small-town and county news.
For 37 years, Greenville has been the site of the annual multi-day Agape Music Festival, or Agape - Fest, a Christian music festival put on by Greenville College students - the only Christian music festival in the nation run by students. The festival has hosted many of the most famous Christian bands, along with more mainstream acts like Owl City in 2013.
In the past, Greenville has served as the annual host to the World Powered Parachute Championships as the "Chute-Out on the Prairie" at Greenville Airport. The first championship ever held was held in Greenville, which is home to some notable participants of the sport. Greenville conducts the Bond County Fair every August.
The Greenville Graffiti Car Show has been held downtown for the past three years and features a large car show with appearances by a nostalgic celebrity downtown.
Greenville Municipal Airport is positioned 3 mi south of downtown at 38 50 10 N, 89 22 42 W.
Governor Bond Lake, a 775-acre man-made lake titled after the first governor of Illinois, Shadrach Bond, is near Greenville.
It was assembled in the late 1960s to supply water to the town/city and is now also used for fishing, boating, camping and other recreational purposes. Greenville is 17 miles from the biggest man-made lake in Illinois, Carlyle Lake, which is one of the most prominent recreational areas in southern Illinois. A large contemporary and plaque placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution marks the locale where Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches while running for the United States Senate in 1858. The town/city unsuccessfully applied for a grant from the Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission to buy the property on South Fifth Street where Lincoln spoke and to problematic a small Lincoln park. A statue dedicated to county veterans of the Civil War was dedicated on the courthouse lawn in 1903; the courthouse lawn has a Veterans' Memorial with respect to all county veterans.
Greenville College is home to the only exhibition dedicated to the sculptures of Richard Bock, who was an associate of Frank Lloyd Wright and designed many of the sculptures for Wright-designed homes.
Greenville also hosts the American Farm Heritage Museum and Hills Fort, a exhibition which aims to preserve agricultural history. The exhibition features exhibits of tractors and other farm-related memorabilia and holds multiple celebrations a year.
Louis Armed Forces Museum, which had long been positioned in Alton, Illinois, relocated to the American Farm Heritage Museum, due to the Greenville exhibition's tourist traffic and visible locale on Interstate 70. Phyllis Holmes, former basketball coach for Greenville College and the U.S.
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