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Havana, IL - History


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


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

Havana has a population of 3178. 53.7% of Havana’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.3 are female. 43.6% of Havana is married and 64.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $83,439, and the average rent is $648. Household median income in Havana is $45,833, and the individual median income is $23,858. Havana’s Ethnic is the following: White(96%), Multiple(3.1%), Black(0.8%), Hispanic(0.3%).


Havana was a major ancient American settlement two thousand years ago, when the largest verified mound of the Western Hopewell Culture was built. Local landmarks were mentioned in the journals of French explorers in the late 1600s. A religious medal dating from the early 1700s suggests that there was missionary activity in what is now Havana.


When permanent English-speaking residents arrived in 1822, there was a Pottawatomie village on the site. A ferry was established to the Western bank of the Illinois River to a road that followed Spoon River. There were War of 1812 bounty lands in Western Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was a frequent visitor to Havana between his days as a soldier in the Blackhawk Wars until at least his three-hour speech on the Rockwell Mound while he was running for the US Senate in 1858.


Douglas had spoken there the day before. When he was younger, Abraham Lincoln rode a mail route from New Salem to Havana. Later, he was a local surveyor, and then an itinerant attorney. Mason County was the only place where Lincoln owned farmland. The English-speaking settlement was originally called Ross's Ferry and was later named after Havana, the capital of Cuba.


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