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Bishop Hill, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Bishop Hill a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Bishop Hill Home page. The Bishop Hill Home page provides as much information as possible on Bishop Hill. Knowing Bishop Hill’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Bishop Hill’s Home page, you will also find Bishop Hill’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Bishop Hill has a population of 92. 32.6% of Bishop Hill’s inhabitants are Male, and 67.4 are female. 50.6% of Bishop Hill is married and 79.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $101,780, and the average rent is $592. Bishop Hill’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%).
The Bishop Hill colony underwent a major upheaval in 1850 after the murder of Erik Jansson. Jansson was assassinated by a former colony member, John Root, who was upset with Jansson for interfering with his marriage to one of Jansson's cousins. After their leader's death, the people of Bishop Hill appointed a group of seven trustees to run the affairs of the colony.
Among the trustees were Jonas Olsson and Olof Johnson, who would become the primary leaders of the colony as they had been two of Jansson's closest aides. Under these two men and the rest of the trustees, the colony continued to grow and flourish. The workforce was reorganized to become more efficient and more buildings were erected.
However, despite Bishop Hill's success, in 1857 financial problems arose in the midst of accusations of mismanagement against Olof Johnson. Johnson had made several large investments, without colony approval, that had turned out to be disastrous. As Bishop Hill headed for financial ruin, colonists voted to end the communal system.
In 1861 the formal dissolution of the colony was official, and many of its people would soon be forced to move away. The Janssonist emigrants were a significant group of men and women to move from Sweden to the United States. Letters home from Janssonists to their friends and family, telling of the fertile agricultural land in the interior of North America, stimulated substantial migration for several decades and contributed to the formation of the Swedish-American ethnic community of the American Midwest. Descendants of Erik Jansson still lived in the colony until December 20, 2004 when Erik's great-great grandson and Bishop Hill volunteer fireman Theodore Arthur Myhre Sr.
died south of the Colony while on a fire service call. Other known descendants remain in Illinois. Surviving buildings built by the Janssonists are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bishop Hill is interpreted as a living community of Swedish-American heritage. Due to state budget cuts the Bishop Hill State Historic Site was closed for nearly 5 months from December 1, 2008 to April 23, 2009.
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