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Harristown, IL - History


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


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

Harristown has a population of 1294. 47.7% of Harristown’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.3 are female. 56.3% of Harristown is married and 85.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $97,166, and the average rent is $625. Household median income in Harristown is $49,542, and the individual median income is $30,731. Harristown’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.5%), Multiple(1%), Asian(0.7%), Black(0.6%), Hispanic(0.5%), Other(0.2%).


The village was named in honor of Major Thomas L. Harris, who was elected and served as Major of the Fourth Illinois Regiment in the Mexican–American War, and who was afterward a member of Congress from 1849 to 1858.The first settlers arrived in 1828 and began building log cabins and improving land around the area.


1841 saw the building of the township’s first schoolhouse, a log building, and served as both the school and as a place of worship until 1853 when the first church was built. Harristown was along the main line of the Wabash Railroad which contributed to increased population and business.Harristown was also the first Illinois home of Abraham Lincoln.


His family settled alongside the Sangamon River in 1830 for a little over a year before relocating due to the harsh winter and extreme sickness. Lincoln and his family constructed a log cabin and fenced in 10 acres of land, planting corn in the fenced land. During that winter, Lincoln, together with his stepmother's son, John D.


Johnston, and John Hanks were hired by Denton Offutt to build a flatboat and navigate it from Beardstown, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana. It was during this time that Lincoln saw slavery first-hand for the first time. Lincoln departed the Harristown area in the spring of 1831. Lincoln Trail Homestead State Park was created in 1904 and marks the spot where his cabin stood.


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