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Campus, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Campus a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Campus Home page. The Campus Home page provides as much information as possible on Campus. Knowing Campus’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Campus’s Home page, you will also find Campus’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Campus has a population of 122. 51.6% of Campus’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.4 are female. 64.3% of Campus is married and 80% own their own home. The Average Home price is $104,110, and the average rent is $813. Household median income in Campus is $81,250, and the individual median income is $44,063. Campus’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%).
Campus was laid out and platted by Charles William Sheldon (1839-1911) in April 1880, along the Wabash Railroad on his farm of 640 acres (260 ha). The town was named "Campus" because the many trees made someone think of a college campus.: 168 Sheldon was a farmer and he owned the first business in town, Campus Brick & Tile Co.
He later sold the company, which passed through several owners before closing in 1952. Over the years the tile company produced millions of feet of drain tile and was one of the principal industries in the town.: 168 Thomas Feehery (1839-1926) built the first store and post office in Campus. The Chariton brothers built the second store in town.
In 1896, the first hotel was built. Other businesses at that time included Ole Nelson and Thomas Connors' livery stable.: 168 Campus had a water system by 1894. The town also had street lights, cement sidewalks, an electric light plant and tile drains, which were great improvements for such an isolated rural town in those early years.: 168 The town had a disastrous fire in 1897 that destroyed three of the business houses.
A brick building was built on the ruins.Sacred Heart Catholic Church was the first brick structure in the village. The Catholic Church had its start in the area in the 1870s when a small church was built in Broughton Township a mile south of Campus. The building was later moved into town.: 170 The present brick building on Elm Street was begun in June 1983 and completed a year later.
A rectory was built next to the church. A convent school was built in 1898 on the other side of Elm Street. The school closed in 1930 and was vacant for several years. It later served as a vocation center and home for priests.: 170 By the 1970s the former school building had become a rooming house and laundromat.
The beautiful building later became vacant and in disrepair.: 170 Joseph Zeller (1918-2018), Pennsylvania businessman and state legislator, was born in Campus.
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