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Alpha, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Alpha a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Alpha Home page. The Alpha Home page provides as much information as possible on Alpha. Knowing Alpha’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Alpha’s Home page, you will also find Alpha’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Alpha has a population of 674. 55.8% of Alpha’s inhabitants are Male, and 44.2 are female. 66.1% of Alpha is married and 87.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $102,466, and the average rent is $773. Household median income in Alpha is $67,813, and the individual median income is $35,250. Alpha’s Ethnic is the following: White(80.7%), Hispanic(14.1%), Multiple(11.6%), Other(7.6%), Black(0.1%).
On June 1, 1872, Anson Calkins laid out the village of Alpha. Alpha was created as a railroad town and replaced the town of Oxford, which was located about three miles west of current day Alpha. It was located at the junction between two lines of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, and a since-razed depot was located at the junction.
The north-south branch between Galesburg and Savanna crossed an east-west branch between Galva and New Boston. The east-west line has been abandoned and the north-south line is in operation as the BNSF Barstow Subdivision. The village was named Alpha (the first letter of the Greek alphabet), because Calkins believed it to be the beginnings of a great city.
It was incorporated on January 11, 1895. In the early 1980s, director Barry Levinson looked at Alpha's railroad car diner as a possible location for filming scenes for his 1982 film Diner.
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