2,231
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$48,359
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Altamont, IL - History
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Welcome to the Altamont Home page. The Altamont Home page provides as much information as possible on Altamont. Knowing Altamont’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Altamont’s Home page, you will also find Altamont’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Altamont has a population of 2231. 50.8% of Altamont’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.2 are female. 44.1% of Altamont is married and 66.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $93,835, and the average rent is $760. Household median income in Altamont is $48,359, and the individual median income is $28,430. Altamont’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%).
Legend says Griffin Tipsword came to live with the Kickapoo Indians, who were indifferent to the coming of a Caucasian man. Tipsword was white by birth and Native American by adoption. He was a pioneer, a missionary preacher, hunter and medicine man among the Native Americans. Tipsword's family name was Sowards.
He called himself Tipsword after coming to Illinois. Tipsword was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, first fighting at Ramsour's Mill in the Carolinas. Griffin died in 1845 and was buried on the banks of Wolff Creek (Tipsword family cemetery, Effingham), leaving three sons, John, Isaac, and Thomas, who left many descendants in the area. Altamont, the "City of Plain", was laid out in Mound Township, considered the richest and best township in Effingham County - being mostly prairies and farm ground - slightly rolling along Big Creek, Coon Creek, and Second Creek.
Mound Township was settled early by German immigrants from the Rhine by way of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The name "Altamont", like "Mound Township", was bestowed by J.W. Conlogue because of the elevation or "mound" to the northwest. The first part of the word means altitude, the second mount or mound. Conlogue was a romantic, naming his town from Latin. In History of Effingham County, editor William Henry Perrin wrote in 1883: "The name of Mound Township was bestowed upon it in consequence of what is known as the neighborhood of Blue Mound, a slight elevation of Section 8, which is nearly all a kind of mound, the apex being in the center of the section, and having an altitude of seventy-eight feet above the bed of the Vandalia Railroad, which passes near it.
Recently, the Government has erected a signal observatory upon it, some seventy-five to one hundred feet in height, from the top of which one may look across the States of Missouri and Arkansas and see the cowboys watching their herds on the prairies of Texas." There had been a trading center called Montville on the bank of the creek south of what is now Altamont (Southmore Heights).
The postmaster was G.H. Milleville and in 1871 the post office moved to this new place called Altamont. Altamont was organized as a town in 1871. On August 8, 1872, Altamont adopted the village form of government, with a mayor and four council members. On April 16, 1901, the voters adopted a city form of government and became the City of Altamont.
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