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Mound City, IL - History
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Welcome to the Mound City Home page. The Mound City Home page provides as much information as possible on Mound City. Knowing Mound City’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Mound City’s Home page, you will also find Mound City’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Mound City has a population of 777. 52.8% of Mound City’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.2 are female. 39.4% of Mound City is married and 48.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $32,175, and the average rent is $531. Household median income in Mound City is $41,364, and the individual median income is $20,787. Mound City’s Ethnic is the following: White(61.4%), Black(37.5%), Hispanic(1.9%), Multiple(0.8%), Asian(0.4%).
Mound City was incorporated in 1857 as a union of two cities: Mound City, founded by Major General Moses Marshal Rawlings, and Emporium City, a project of the Emporium Real Estate and Manufacturing Company, a group of Cincinnati and Cairo businessmen. The city took its name from a Native American mound on which guests at General Rawlings' hotel would sleep in summer, as the breezes cooled them and dispersed the mosquitoes.During the Civil War, Admiral Andrew Hull Foote made Cairo the naval station for the Mississippi River Squadron of over 200 ironclads, timberclads, hospital ships, transports, and other vessels.
Since Cairo had no land available for base facilities, the navy yard repair shop machinery was afloat aboard wharf-boats, old steamers, tugs, flat-boats, and rafts. The naval station was moved upstream in 1862 when 10 acres (4.0 ha) of land was purchased in Mound City. The Mound City Naval Station included a shipyard with marine ways, a foundry, marine barracks, supply offices, and a hospital; but many repair facilities remained afloat because the Mound City land was frequently inundated by flood waters.USS Cairo was built in 1861 by James Eads and Co.
of Mound City, under contract to the War Department. She was commissioned in January 1862 as part of the Mississippi River Squadron, U.S. Navy Lieutenant James M. Prichett in command. She was a City-class ironclad gunboat constructed for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was the lead ship of the City-class gunboats, sometimes also called the Cairo class, and was named for Cairo, Illinois.
On December 12, 1862 just north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, the USS Cairo became the first ship sunk by electrically detonated torpedoes during its mission to destroy Confederate batteries and clear the Yazoo River of underwater mines.In 2017, Mound City elected Allison Madison, the city's first African-American and first female mayor.
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