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Walnut Hill, IL - History
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Welcome to the Walnut Hill Home page. The Walnut Hill Home page provides as much information as possible on Walnut Hill. Knowing Walnut Hill’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Walnut Hill’s Home page, you will also find Walnut Hill’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Walnut Hill has a population of 112. 47.3% of Walnut Hill’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.7 are female. 48.9% of Walnut Hill is married and 73.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $49,500. Household median income in Walnut Hill is $32,917, and the individual median income is $27,500. Walnut Hill’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.2%), Multiple(9.8%).
In the early 19th century, William Goings (also spelled Goins) kept a tavern that was presumably on land homesteaded by Goings about two miles south of Walnut Hill in Jefferson County, Illinois. William Goings lead a band of robbers known as the "Goings Gang" that preyed on frontier travelers on the Vincennes-St.
Louis Trace, a dirt road that was originally an old bison path that extended through southern Illinois. The gang operated a series of connected frontier taverns along this road, passing information on to gang members whenever a traveler worth robbing stopped at one of their taverns. When the unfortunate traveler reached a remote spot, the gang members would assemble and relieve them of their property. As in other frontier areas, neighboring settlers overlooked this activity until the Goings Gang escalated to murder in 1818–1819.
In response, the settlers organized a group of vigilantes or "rangers" who surprised the Goings Gang at Walnut Hill. The gang members were tied to trees, flogged, and ordered to leave the county, an order which all but one obeyed. The following year, the vigilantes returned and cropped the ears of this obstinate gang member, who may have been criminal gang leader William Goings, possibly because they believed he had no use for his ears as he would not listen and cease in his criminal activities.
The tavern site of one of the reported gang members, Samuel Young of Marion County, Illinois was excavated by archaeologists working for the Illinois Department of Transportation in 1988 prior to its destruction by a highway project
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