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$41,563
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America/Chicago
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Equality, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Equality a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Equality Home page. The Equality Home page provides as much information as possible on Equality. Knowing Equality’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Equality’s Home page, you will also find Equality’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Equality has a population of 442. 52.5% of Equality’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.5 are female. 43.5% of Equality is married and 82.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $68,971, and the average rent is $380. Household median income in Equality is $41,563, and the individual median income is $21,146. Equality’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%).
French settlers extracted salt near Equality as early as 1735, while Native Americans made salt here long before then. In 1803, the American Indians ceded their "Great Salt Springs" to the US government by treaty. The government then leased the springs, requiring the holder to produce a certain quantity of salt each year or pay a penalty.
The salt works is referred to as the "United States Saline" in old documents. Isaac White was in charge of the salt works in 1811. White volunteered for the Indiana Militia that year, and was killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe. Special territorial laws permitted exceptions to anti-slavery treaties at these salines, and slaves were used extensively in manufacturing salt.
The census of 1820 for Gallatin County listed 239 slaves or servants. During the 1820s, Gallatin County included what is now Saline County as its western half. In 1826, the county seat was moved from Old Shawneetown, on the eastern edge of the county, to the new village of Equality, near the center of what was then Gallatin County.
Equality remained the county seat until the formation of Saline County in 1847. In 1838, a local salt maker and illegal slave trader kidnapper and illegal slave breeder, John Hart Crenshaw, began building his manor house at Hickory Hill just five miles east of Equality; he used the house for his business of kidnapping free blacks and breeding slaves to sell into slavery as part of the Reverse Underground Railroad. The Great Salt Springs are located southeast of Equality, on federal land along the south bank of the Saline River, seven-tenths of a mile west of Illinois Route 1 on Salt Well Road.
Half Moon Lick, where the saltworks first developed as a large industry, is on private property southwest of Equality.
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