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


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

Old Shawneetown has a population of 75. 57.3% of Old Shawneetown’s inhabitants are Male, and 42.7 are female. 34.9% of Old Shawneetown is married and 60% own their own home. Household median income in Old Shawneetown is $16,667, and the individual median income is $12,500. Old Shawneetown’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%).


At least one record suggests that a village was established here by the Pekowi Shawnee led by Peter Chartier about 1758.: 216–217  In early November 1803, Lewis and Clark are believed to have stopped at Old Shawneetown on their way to Fort Massac, just down the Ohio River.After the American Revolution, Shawneetown served as an important United States government administrative center for the Northwest Territory.


Shawneetown and Washington, D.C., share the distinction of being the only towns chartered by the United States government. Old Shawneetown is the site of the first bank chartered in Illinois, in 1816. Originally in a log cabin, it was replaced in 1822 with a brick structure (only the second one in the town) now known as the John Marshall House.Local legend states that the Shawneetown Bank refused to buy the first bonds issued by the city of Chicago on the grounds that no city located that far from a navigable river could survive. Another historic bank building, the Bank of Illinois, was constructed in 1839-41 to house the offices of the Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown.


It later housed numerous other financial institutions before it was closed in the 1930s. This fine example of Greek Revival architecture survives as the Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site. Residents long remembered the visit by Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette of France to the city on May 8, 1825, as a high point for the early community's social history.After the Great Flood of 1937, many residents moved to the current location of Shawneetown.


The old courthouse was torn down and a new Gallatin County Courthouse was constructed in 1939.


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