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De Land, IL - History


We would like to provide the residents of  De Land  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the De Land Home page. The De Land Home page provides as much information as possible on De Land. Knowing De Land’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within De Land’s Home page, you will also find De Land’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

De Land has a population of 468. 43.6% of De Land’s inhabitants are Male, and 56.4 are female. 49.9% of De Land is married and 72.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $78,575, and the average rent is $730. Household median income in De Land is $49,167, and the individual median income is $26,912. De Land’s Ethnic is the following: White(93.6%), Black(6.2%), Hispanic(3.2%), Multiple(0.2%).


DeLand was founded in 1873 by Thomas E. Bondurant. who had it laid out as an answer to the needs of the local farmers for a place from which to ship their grain. Before officially being named DeLand, the town was known as "Tom's Town" in honor of Thomas Bondurant. The origination of the name DeLand has disputed sources, most tracing back to either James DeLand who helped bring the railroad to the area in 1872 or French DeLand a surveyor who is said to have laid out the town.


The village was incorporated in 1899.In 1912 a Carnegie Library was opened in DeLand with $8,000 provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, after a group of citizens including Tom McMillen, a local bank employee, and Lucy Thornton, the president of the Women's Club, raised public support for the project.


The original library building was closed in 2009 and all books and materials were moved to a building nearby. In 2002, the De Land board of trustees acknowledged that it had passed a sundown town ordinance decades earlier.


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