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Princeton, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Princeton a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Princeton Home page. The Princeton Home page provides as much information as possible on Princeton. Knowing Princeton’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Princeton’s Home page, you will also find Princeton’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Princeton has a population of 7589. 43.7% of Princeton’s inhabitants are Male, and 56.3 are female. 48.7% of Princeton is married and 69% own their own home. The Average Home price is $122,264, and the average rent is $643. Household median income in Princeton is $51,844, and the individual median income is $29,184. Princeton’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.6%), Hispanic(5.4%), Multiple(1.4%), Other(0.7%), Black(0.1%), Native(0.1%).
Bureau County was a New England settlement. The original founders of Princeton consisted entirely of settlers from New England. These people were "Yankees," descended from the English Puritans who settled New England in the 1600s. They were part of a wave of New England farmers who headed west into what was then the wilds of the Northwest Territory during the early 1800s.
Most of them arrived as a result of the completion of the Erie Canal. When they arrived in what is now Bureau County there was nothing but a virgin forest and wild prairie; the New Englanders laid out farms, constructed roads, erected government buildings and established post routes. They brought with them many of their Yankee New England values, such as a passion for education, fueling the establishment of many schools, as well as staunch support for abolitionism.
They were mostly members of the Congregationalist Church though some were Episcopalian. Culturally Bureau County, like much of northern Illinois, would be culturally very continuous with early New England culture for most of its history. During the time of slavery, it was a stop on the Underground Railroad at the home of Owen Lovejoy. The name of Princeton was supposedly determined by drawing from a hat: "The naming of the township of Princeton was the privilege of the three trustees, Roland Moseley, John Musgrove and John P.
Blake...each one had a favorite name to present.. but could come to no agreement; finally it was decided that it should be settled by lottery. Each man was to write the name of his choice upon a piece of paper and place it in a hat, and a stranger, being blind-folded, should make the drawing. Mr. Musgrove, coming from New Jersey, and being loyal to his classic institution, wrote upon his slip Princeton, and as it had been agreed that the first name drawn should settle the question..(on) the slip of paper drawn by the blind-folded man, Princeton was plainly written, and so we today have the classic name of Princeton for the legal center of Bureau county.
Princeton, for many years has enjoyed the distinction of being one of the literary centers of the state. She has the proud record of organizing and putting in successful operation the first township high school in Illinois. It is surely a city of quiet and pleasant homes." Princeton's former nickname was "The City of Elms" because of the large number of elm trees the city had during the middle of the 20th century.
However, an epidemic struck the elm trees of Princeton in the mid-1960's and killed off almost every elm. Soon after, Princeton's slogan was changed to "Where Tradition Meets Progress".
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