Harrisburg, Illinois City of Harrisburg From top left: North Side of square, Garden of the Gods, Saline county courthouse and Clearwave building, O'gara mine tipple, South side of square, Poplar Street Homes, Harrisburg Township High school.
From top left: North Side of square, Garden of the Gods, Saline county courthouse and Clearwave building, O'gara mine tipple, South side of square, Poplar Street Homes, Harrisburg Township High school.
Location in Saline County in the state of Illinois.
Location in Saline County in the state of Illinois.
Harrisburg (/ h r sb r / or / h rzb r /) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Saline County, Illinois, United States. It is positioned about 57 miles (92 km) southwest of Evansville, Indiana and 111 miles (179 km) southeast of St.
The 2010 populace was 9,017, and the encircling Harrisburg Township had a populace of 10,790, including the town/city residents.
Harrisburg is encompassed in the Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky Tri-State Area and is the principal town/city in the Harrisburg Micropolitan Travel Destination with a combined populace of 24,913. Route 45, Illinois Route 13, Illinois Route 145, and Illinois Route 34, Harrisburg is known as the "Gateway to the Shawnee National Forest", and is also known for the Ohio River flood of 1937, the old Crenshaw House (also known as the Old Slave House), the Tuttle Bottoms Monster, prohibition-era gangster Charlie Birger, and the 2012 EF4 tornado.
A Cairo and Vincennes Railroad boomtown, the town/city was one of the dominant bituminous coal quarrying distribution hubs of the American Midwest between 1900 and 1937.
At its peak, Harrisburg had a populace that reached 16,000 by the early 1930s.
The town/city had one of the biggest downtown districts in Southern Illinois. The town/city was the 20th-most populated town/city in Illinois outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area and the most-populous town/city in Southern Illinois outside of the Metro East in 1930. However, the town/city has seen an economic diminish due to the decreased demand for high-sulfur coal, the removal of the New York Central barns , and tributary lowlands leaving much region around the town/city unfit for expansion due to flood risks.
At the beginning of recorded American history, the Harrisburg region was inhabited by a several Algonquian tribes, including the Shawnee and Piankashaw, who lived in the dense inland forests.
The town of Harrisburg was platted a several miles south of the junction of the Goshen and Shawneetown Kaskaskia Trail, two of the first pioneer trade routes in the state.
Founded at the start of the Second Industrial Revolution, Harrisburg was plotted shortly after Saline County was established in 1847 from part of Gallatin County.
The town/city was titled for James Alexander Harris, who had assembled a farmhouse and planted a corn field in a clearing in the region of the current town/city square around 1820. A primary legal battle took place inside the county government because of voter fraud accusations by the citizens of Raleigh. Nevertheless, Harrisburg was plotted as a village on 20 acres (80,940 m2) in 1853 and became the governmental center of county in 1859.
Between 1860 and 1865 southern cotton became unavailable amid the Civil War, Harrisburg was one of the several metros/cities in the Upland South amid this time to have woolen mills, making the town an industrialized asset early on to Southern Illinois.
Several planing mills and flour mills also dotted the city. The Cairo and Vincennes Railroad was instead of in 1872 by Ambrose Burnside, and American Civil War, Union Army, brigadier general Green Berry Raum, who was living in Harrisburg at that time. Harrisburg also saw the opening of a several saw mills.
The Snellbaker and Company Saw Mill and Lumber Yard opened in 1895, as well did J.B Ford Harrisburg Planing Mill the same year.
The Barnes Lumber Company in Harrisburg started as a sawmill operation in 1899.
The Woolcott Milling Company, directed by J.H Woolcott and J.C Wilson assembled a flour foundry in 1874, on the now defunct south Woolcott Street, with rail spur, behind the current Parker Plaza, that had 23 grain elevators and the capacity of carrying out 200 barrels of flour in a 24-hour reconstructionand up to 400 by 1907, with a new 75,000-US-bushel (2,600,000 L) tower.
The exchange market was positioned in Carrier Mills. Located on Commercial Street athwart the tracks from the train depot, The Southern Illinois Milling & Elevator Company was incorporated on July 29, 1891 by Philip H.
During the Reconstruction Era, when economic conditions made impractical the burgeoning of cotton, lumbering and tobacco burgeoning (which pioneers found profitable commercially), grain farming by crop rotation, dairying, reforestation, merchandising and manufacturing, and Coal quarrying especially, began to occupy the city. In 1889, with a populace of 1,500, Harrisburg became a city, with an aldermanic form of government.
It adopted the commission form in 1915. Even with these early industrialized advantages over other metros/cities in the region, the Sanborn Map business still referred to the water facilities and road conditions inside the town/city limits, "Not good, and not paved" up to 1900. Harrisburg rail, road, and coal map, 1920.
Louis Railway around 1890, with Illinois state representative Charles P Skaggs as mayor, Harrisburg evolved into one of the dominant coal-mining centers of the Midwest. Harrisburg was a strategic spot on the barns route with a large hump yard, making it the focal point for the most productive coal field operations.
Some of the most profitable coal companies that directed around Harrisburg were Big Creek Coal, Harrisburg Coal and O'Gara Coal.
He purchased and took in 23 privately owned mines in the Harrisburg coal field which equaled 50,000 acres (200 km2) of land. The Company based its command posts in Harrisburg in 1905.
Large numbers of immigrants from England, Wales, and easterly Europe, looking for work, detrained at the Harrisburg Train Depot; crowding around quickly expanding quarrying villages directly outside of the city, such as Muddy, Wasson, Harco and Ledford.
The city's populace quickly period from 5,000 to 10,000 in a several years. By 1906, the Big four/CCC&STL Railroad became the New York Central, and Saline County was producing more than 500,000 tons of coal annually with more than 5000 miners at work. In 1915 the Ringling Brothers Circus made an appearance in Harrisburg. In 1913, the Southern Illinois Railway and Power Company directed an interurban street car line, that ran from downtown Eldorado, into Muddy, Wasson, Beulah Heights, through downtown Harrisburg, Dorrisville, Ledford and into downtown Carrier Mills, all of which had larger residentiary areas than present. In 1917 there were plans to extend the line westward to Marion and Carbondale to connect to the Coal Belt Co.
It was the second tallest building in Southern Illinois with the first being the Spivey Building in East St.
Radio station was the tallest structure in the town/city and could be seen for miles. Harrisburg had just rather than the new three-story Horning Hotel around 1920, and two new theaters with a combined total of 1,600 seats: the Orpheum and the Grand the same year.
The eight-story Harrisburg National Bank building, the O'Gara Coal Headquarters, the Cummins Office building, and the four-story Harrisburg Hospital were all assembled in 1923.
The new four-story Harrisburg City Hall building was constructed in 1927, and a complex highway fitness was constructed through the city, with Illinois Route 13 and Illinois Route 34 constructed in 1918; U.S.
For a time, the gangster's prized Tommy gun was displayed in a glass case in the City Hall. The geography around Harrisburg changed indefinitely, with coal areas producing a surface quarrying landscape the size of San Jose, California, roughly 172 sq mi (450 km2), aptly titled The Harrisburg Coal Field.
The field completely encased the suburbs of Carrier Mills and Harrisburg, while creating partial borders to Stonefort, Galatia, and Raleigh.
Harrisburg reached its peak populace of 15,659 in 1930, making it the 20th most populated town/city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area, in Illinois, and the most crowded city in Southern Illinois outside of the metro-east.
If the town/city combined the service communities bordering Harrisburg such as Ledford and Muddy, the populace would have been even greater at 26,000, and Saline county as a whole reached nearly 40,000 citizens . Even with the economic downturn amid the Great depression, with company owners and industrialized firms method shop, the town/city continued to thrive due to its enormous coal industry.
On June 17, 1936, Eleanor Roosevelt visited Harrisburg to observe work of the WPA and bringed a speech in the packed High School gymnasium. The heyday ended quickly when the Ohio River flood of 1937 left 4,000 inside the town/city homeless and 80% of the town/city inundated. Many flooded mines were deemed condemned which left the small-town economy crippled.
In 1938, the state of Illinois had instead of one of the biggest operations of its kind ever attempted in the United States, the removal of more than two and a half billion gallons of flood water from Sahara mine No.
Soon the Southern Illinois Railway and Power business was bought by the Central Illinois Public Service Company.
The inter-urban line was abandoned in 1933 after 20 years of service. After the decommission of the Interurban line, Harrisburg opened the Harrisburg-Dorrisville Bus Co., which was a private predecessor bus business to the current Rides Mass Transit District which was opened in 1980. Between 1930 and 1940 the town/city lost 27% of its overall population. Immediately after World War II new coal companies, Peabody, Bluebird, and Sahara starting quarrying inside the city.
The war created a great demand for energy, which was satisfied by period strip quarrying operations throughout the Harrisburg Coal Fields.
In contrast to other metros/cities in the United States that prospered in the post-war boom, the fortunes of Saline County began to quickly diminish. Harry Truman stopped briefly in Harrisburg amid his whistlestop tour in September 30, 1948, giving some hope for economic recovery for the region.
It was reported by the Daily Register Newspaper that cars were lined along Route 13 all the way from Marion and on to Eldorado on Route 45. In 1950 Assistant State Attorney General of Illinois, George N.
By 1957, the Egyptian was the last passenger train to travel through the city. Between 1940 and 1960 Harrisburg lost another 20% of its populace due to economic standstill. With only 9100 citizens left in the town/city that once had 16,000, then Senator John F.
"Farmers could farm and work in the metros/cities and towns, but this year we have the highest unemployment that we have had in any months of August and September, the three Augusts and Septembers preceding the recession of 1949, 1954, and 1958, and this precinct knows this lured well, because this precinct has lost 60,000 citizens in the last 10 years." By 1968 with hopes of bringing a new influx of coal quarrying into the city, Sahara Coal Company ordered the Bucyrus-Eerie "GEM of Egypt" strip mine shovel, one of the biggest in the world at 8-stories high and weighing 1,000 tons. It took three men to operate it, and its bucket capacity was 30 cubic yards.
The train depot was razed in 1972 and all coal freight was ordered out of the Harrisburg Hump Yard by 1973.
The freight yard closed in 1982, Sahara Coal business shut down operations in 1993, 865 jobs were lost in the county that year. This ended the reign of big coal in Harrisburg, a way of life for inhabitants for over 100 years. The Cairo and Vincennes Railroad/Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
The case was chronicled in the book by Darcy O'Brien, Murder in Little Egypt. Soon Pioneer history was showcased at the Saline County Area Historical Museum on the city's southern edge.
The Harrisburg-Raleigh Airport is positioned approximately four miles north of Harrisburg on Highway 34.
New Harrisburg Wal-Mart supercenter assembled 2008.
A Tax Increment Finance precinct was assembled on the property of the old rail yard north of the town/city where the Harrisburg Professional Park was built. The industrialized base inside the city, while most were not coal related, gave opportunity to a number of town/city residents.
American Coal and Arclar, the only two coal mines in the county were producing low sulfur coal as an energy resource.
Kerr-Mc - Gee Coal Corporation's Galatia Complex was purchased by the American Coal Company in 1998. American Coal working about 580 workers, while Arclar working 175 persons.
Southern Truss and Harrisburg Truss companies working together 100 employees manufacturing building components. In 2008 assembly on the Harrisburg Wal-Mart Supercenter was completed.
Wal-Mart will give $21,950 in grants to the Anna Bixby Women's Center, Bridge Medical Clinic, CASA of Saline County, Harrisburg District Library, Harrisburg Police Department, Harvest Deliverance Center Food Pantry, Regional Superintendent of Schools, Saline County Senior Citizens Council and Saline County Sheriff's Department.
The Supercenter became the second-largest employer in the city, with 340 employees on its payroll. A new strip mall was instead of on the south side of town, and Parker Plaza, the earliest shopping center in town was renovated with a new facade to promote commercial expansion in the city. Things slowly took a turn for the worse when former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's decision to move a division of I-DOT to Southern Illinois was overturned by his successor Pat Quinn.
This was the first time Harrisburg had been without a cinema since 1920. After release of the 2010 census, in February 2011, the town/city learned that its populace had dropped to a low of 9,017 citizens , an 8.5 percent decrease. It was the lowest populace since the pre-coal boom of 1900.
Harrisburg also suffered from various scandals involving the school precinct and police department.
In 2011, the Chief Deputy of the Saline County Sheriffs Department was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing a high school student who was working as an intern. The biggest hit was in late February 2012, an EF4 tornado hit Harrisburg amid the 2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak.
In 2016, after the 2015 election of Mayor Dale Fowler, Harrisburg opened a brand new theater on the north side of town, and unveiled park plaza, gateway for southeastern Illinois entertainment and culture downtown.
Mayer Fowler wanted to start promoting Harrisburg as the destination capital of southeastern Illinois.
Harrisburg continues to be the retail core of Saline County.
Harrisburg is positioned at 37 44 2 N 88 32 45 W (37.733765, -88.545873). According to the 2010 census, Harrisburg has a total region of 6.759 square miles (17.51 km2), of which 6.55 square miles (16.96 km2) (or 96.91%) is territory and 0.209 square miles (0.54 km2) (or 3.09%) is water. The square in the center of town, as well as Dorrisville and Gaskins City, stand on top of a series of sandstone bluffs that were once islands rising above natural lowlands, 338 feet (103 m) above sea level, dredged by the middle fork of the Saline River. The Saline River was a navigable river used by early pioneer for transit to and from Salt Works just east of Harrisburg.
When the region was drained, homes and businesses were assembled in the floodplain, and it became apt to serious flooding for years to come. The town square in the center of town is a sandstone bluff 410 feet (125 m) above sea level, one of the first that start the Shawnee Hills to the south.
Topographic maps show the bluffs that rise from the Saline River that wraps the northeast part of the city. Harrisburg is positioned at the ending point of the Laurentide ice sheet, which veiled about 85 percent of Illinois.
After the 5.5 Richter Scale magnitude 1968 Illinois earthquake, scientists realized that there was a previously unknown fault under Saline County, just north of Eldorado, Illinois near Harrisburg.
Old Harrisburg Post Office on the corner of Main and Church Street.
Harrisburg square 1950.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Harrisburg prospered with one of the biggest downtown districts in downstate Illinois.
During the early 20th century, urbanization of the town/city due to the geographical feature of "Cruesoe's Island" and encircling coal quarrying property created a density not seen in many metros/cities of its size.
The town/city at the time with a populace nearing 10,000 was forced to tightly cram homes and businesses upon the sandstone outcropping less than a square mile in diameter dominant many to build their buildings with multiple stories around the town square.
The town square was completely surrounded by brick streets in 1906. Harrisburg had 25 miles (40 km) of brick streets, but now only a several blocks are left. Harrisburg has not yet begun a National Trust for Historic Preservation, Main Street historical preservation program.
Saline County is inside a recognized historical district, the "Ohio River Route Where Illinois Began".
Two buildings in Harrisburg are presently listed on the National Register of Historic Places, those being the City Hall and the Saline County Poor Farm. Gaddis was replaced with a modern, more efficient building in 1967 after the older building was condemned. Over the years, the architecture that graced Harrisburg square has slowly turned to rotting older structures different in with a hodge-podge of newer updated buildings.
The Harrisburg Mitchell-Carnegie Library, positioned on Church Street south of the square and assembled with a grant from Andrew Carnegie, was assembled in 1908 and opened to the enhance in 1909.
The building served the improve until 2000 when the library was moved to a new building on north Main Street.
Harrisburg has three town/city parks.
The home was considered "unrestorable". In 2012, Harrisburg High School was placed on the Landmark Illinois endangered buildings list.
Two seniors at Harrisburg High School were preparing a nomination of the building for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, and they helped to distribute a petition through civil media in order to help save the school. Harrisburg neighborhoods Harrisburg industrialized zone in Dorrisville.
Harrisburg is split up into a several small neighborhoods that were took in into the town/city limits over time, from north to south. Sits to the direct north of Harrisburg with the Dorris Heights Street being the chief road through the area.
Wilmoth Addition Is an region of prominently African American inhabitants north of Old Harrisburg, and just south of Dorris Heights.
Old Harrisburg Village The streets that surround the town square.
Gaskins City Includes a small village took in in 1905, titled for the Gaskins family of Harrisburg, prominent company owners and coal company doers of the Egyptian Coal Company, later sold to O'Gara. Gaskins City is a series of a several blocks that exists to the east of the Harrisburg Levee and Route 45.
Sloan Street crosses Route 45, runs straight into the center of Gaskins City and terminates at the Harrisburg Medical Center.
Part of Harrisburg Medical Center was also heavily damaged.
A Classic Colonial Revival Gilded Age Harrisburg home.
Dorrisville Straight south of Harrisburg, and established in 1905 with a postal service, and took in by the town/city in 1923.
Dorrisville holds the Dorrisville Baptist Church, the Saline County Area Historical Museum, and "Pauper Farm Crossing", which is on the crossroads of Feazel Street and Route 45.
Most citizens recognize Dorrisville as the first 5-6 blocks north, west, and east of the Feazel Street and Barnett Street 4-way stop. A large part of Dorrisville along the Barnett Street corridor and south of Main Street was finished in the tornado.
In 1873, designer of the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad, Green Berry Raum of Harrisburg, opened a slope mine on the south side of the rails near Liberty.
Liberty is bordered by the old quarrying improve of Ledford 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Harrisburg, Dorrisville to the west, and Buena Vista to the north.
Ledford is spread athwart a 4-mile (6.4 km) span of territory along Route 45 between Carrier Mills and Harrisburg, with a several roads branching off to the left and right of the highway.
A view towards the town/city as seen from far east Sloan Street near Gaskins City.
Harrisburg downtown (Crusoe's Island) as seen from far east Poplar Street (Route 13).
Climate data for Harrisburg, Illinois Flooding along the Ohio River, causing back flow of the middle fork of the Saline River has plagued Harrisburg over the years. The town/city was flooded in 1883 1884 and again in 1913. The most harsh came amid the Ohio River flood of 1937 when much of the city, except "Crusoes' Island", a downtown orbit that encircled the town square, was underwater.
High water had reached 30 miles (48 km) from the river, and the town/city was flooded in its position among tributary lowlands. 10,000 out of the 16,000 inhabitants were left stranded on the crowded "island" for weeks, while the other 80% of Harrisburg was completely inundated.
By the time the flood waters had receded, 4000 were left homeless. Between Gallatin County and Harrisburg, about 25 miles (40 km) of Illinois Route 13 was veiled by 8.0 to 14.0 feet (2.4 to 4.3 m) of water; motorboats navigated the entire distance to rescue marooned families. National guard boats were the means of transit in the city, and a several thousand citizens were transported daily from temporary island to island. According to the Sanborn Map Company, Harrisburg in October 1925 had a populace of 15,000, and in a revised version by January 1937 the populace had declined to 13,000. After that, a levee was erected north and east of the town/city for protection from future floods.
Harrisburg officials reported 74 businesses affected by flooding, Businesses along Commercial Street (U.S.
Destroyed shopping center in Harrisburg in the wake of the Tornadoes Spawned by a weather fitness that had originated in Kansas, an EF-4 tornado slammed into Harrisburg early on the morning of February 29, 2012.
The tornado touched down just north of Carrier Mills at 4:51 a.m., finished a church and damaged homes along Town Park Road, and then traveled ENE through the Harrisburg Coal Field just north of Ledford, and then went through Liberty, where it damaged Harrisburg Middle School. The tornado then reached the south-western edge of the town/city at 4:56 a.m., specifically Dorrisville, which suffered momentous property damage, and then churned eastward to Gaskins City which was nearly leveled; 7 citizens were confirmed dead in that area, most killed in an apartment complex that was crushed by another residence, and 110 were injured overall. On June 3, another victim died in the hospital from their injuries, raising the death toll to 8. Harrisburg Medical Center was also decidedly damaged in Gaskins City. Peak winds were estimated to have been about 180 mph, and the width of the tornado path was 275 yards, traveling 26.5 miles.
In Harrisburg, more than 200 homes, and about 25 businesses were finished or damaged heavily.
Through 6 a.m. Counting the damage and death toll, it was reported to be the worst storm since the Joplin, Missouri tornado. Harrisburg Unit 3 schools were closed until March 5, 2012, and later they offered trauma counseling to students after reopening. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and IEMA[clarification needed] began doing preliminary damage assessments on March 5, 2012 in order to determine the need for enhance assistance. The storm damage in Harrisburg dominated nationwide airwaves for a several days, with both Anderson Cooper and Diane Sawyer doing special reports. Both the New York Times and Chicago Tribune presented articles about the resilient history and nature of Harrisburg to comebackfrom the tornado and floods that have hit the town/city since its beginning in 1889. More than 270,000 acres (1,100 km2) of Shawnee National Forest lie to the south of Harrisburg, drawing visitors annually to the Saline County region and the gateway community.
When the Shawnee Purchase Units were first established, temporary command posts were set up in Room 303, First Trust and Savings Bank Building, Harrisburg, Illinois.
This was the only undivided office building in the town of Harrisburg suitable for headquarters, and the forest has continued to occupy this building as Supervisor's offices.
The Daily Register, based in Harrisburg, has been providing coverage of news for southeastern Illinois since 1869, and is owned by Gate - House Media. It is the primary daily journal serving Harrisburg, Saline County, and distributes to Paducah, Kentucky, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Mount Vernon, Illinois.
Harrisburg has one tv station licensed directly to the city; WSIL-TV.
The station's studios reside in close-by Carterville. There is one primary AM transmitting station in Harrisburg, WEBQ 1240, a now nation music station that has broadcast news and music to the region since the 1930s.
Harrisburg is the governmental center of county of Saline County with a mayor and council form of government.
The City of Harrisburg operates its own water distribution system.
Harrisburg Hospital was at one time positioned in a four-story complex one block from the town square, but in the 1990s moved to Harrisburg Medical Center where 78 beds and 34 physicians are on staff.
There are 25 nursing homes in the Harrisburg and southeastern Illinois area.
Harrisburg Community Unit School District 3 serves the city's student populace with two K-6 elementary schools, a junior high school, and a senior high school.
Malan Junior High was the chief middle school for the town/city until 2005 when the new middle school was assembled in Liberty, which has 300 students enrolled.
Harrisburg High School has more than 600 students enrolled.
The town/city also has seven preschools and daycare centers. Harrisburg once had a several schools inside the township before the different neighborhoods were annexed, all are now closed down, a several are, Horace Mann, Mc - Kinley School, Bayliss School, Phillips School, and Ledford school. Southeastern Illinois College is a two-year junior college that sits on a 148-acre (60 ha) ground east of the town/city limits.
Other close-by small-town universities and universities are Southern Illinois University ground at Carbondale Rend Lake College, at Ina; Eastern Illinois University, at Charleston, Shawnee Community College at Vienna, and the University of Evansville, at Evansville, Indiana. Virginia Gregg, actress, born in Harrisburg (1916), known as the voice of Norman Bates' mother in "Psycho" "Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007 (CBSA-EST2007-01)".
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