Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

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3	3	1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
4	4	2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
5	5	3 Representatives wish to congratulate Marion County on the
6	6	4 occasion of its 200th birthday; and
7	7	5 WHEREAS, Marion County was organized on the 24th of
8	8	6 January 1823 from portions of Jefferson and Fayette counties
9	9	7 and was named in honor of Revolutionary War General Francis
10	10	8 Marion, the "Swamp Fox", as recommended by State
11	11	9 Representative Zadok Casey of Mt. Vernon, who would later
12	12	10 serve as the 14th Speaker of the Illinois House; and
13	13	11 WHEREAS, Marion County is comprised of 576 square miles,
14	14	12 572 square miles of land and 3.7 square miles of water; the
15	15	13 southwest corner of Marion County is the intersection of the
16	16	14 baseline with the Third Principal Meridian, the point of
17	17	15 origin for the third survey of the Northwest Territory under
18	18	16 the Land Ordinance of 1785; and
19	19	17 WHEREAS, Marion County consists of 17 townships, which
20	20	18 includes Alma, Carrigan, Centralia, Foster, Haines, Iuka,
21	21	19 Kinmundy, Meacham, Odin, Omega, Patoka, Raccoon, Romine,
22	22	20 Salem, Sandoval, Stevenson, and Tonti, all or portions of the
23	23	21 cities of Centralia, Kinmundy, Salem, and Wamac, all or
24	24	22 portions of the villages of Alma, Central City, Iuka, Junction
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33	33	1 City, Kell, Odin, Patoka, Sandoval, Vernon, and Walnut Hill,
34	34	2 and the current unincorporated communities of Greendale and
35	35	3 Tonti; and
36	36	4 WHEREAS, The permanent settlement of Marion County began
37	37	5 with Captain Samuel Young and his nine-year-old son, Matthew,
38	38	6 in 1818, prompted after the New Madrid earthquake and flooding
39	39	7 of 1811; there were nearly 2000 people living in the county by
40	40	8 1823; and
41	41	9 WHEREAS, The history of Marion County is closely tied to
42	42	10 the livelihood and commerce of agriculture, the development
43	43	11 and expansion of railroads, the discovery of natural resources
44	44	12 including oil and coal, and the impact and service of many
45	45	13 public officials and leaders who have called Marion County
46	46	14 home, including U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings
47	47	15 Bryan, U.S. Senator Roland Burris, U.S. Congressmen James
48	48	16 Stewart Martin, John Cunningham Martin, Charles Wesley
49	49	17 Vursell, General Assembly Members Silas Bryan and John D.
50	50	18 Cavaletto, and Presidential Press Secretary James Brady; and
51	51	19 WHEREAS, Ninety-five percent of the more than 1,000 farms
52	52	20 in Marion County today are still family farms with 71%
53	53	21 dedicated to the sale of crops (soybeans, corn, wheat) and 29%
54	54	22 to the sale of livestock, poultry, and other products
55	55	23 (hogs/pigs, cattle/calves, horses/ponies, sheep/lambs, goats,
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66	66	1 chickens, and turkeys); and
67	67	2 WHEREAS, Seventy-nine farms are listed as Centennial Farms
68	68	3 with the Illinois Department of Agriculture, 16 of which are
69	69	4 recognized as Sesquicentennial Farms with continuous ownership
70	70	5 in the same family for at least 150 years, including the Kuhn,
71	71	6 Doolen, Snyder, Shanafelt, Garrett, Jones, Phillips,
72	72	7 Stevenson, Brasel, Whitchurch, and Hanks families; and
73	73	8 WHEREAS, Marion County, specifically the county seat of
74	74	9 Salem, earned the nickname "Gateway of Little Egypt" from the
75	75	10 year 1831, when crops failed in the northern two thirds of
76	76	11 Illinois and northerner's trips through the region for corn
77	77	12 were compared to biblical accounts of Israelites' journeys to
78	78	13 Egypt to purchase grain; and
79	79	14 WHEREAS, Marion County was a principal marketplace for red
80	80	15 top hayseed, which was in great demand in Europe during World
81	81	16 War I; it also boasts being recognized as the "Birthplace of
82	82	17 the G.I. Bill of Rights" at the American Legion Post 128 in
83	83	18 Salem; and
84	84	19 WHEREAS, The State's railroad history dates back to 1837,
85	85	20 boasted over 12,000 miles of tracks during its "Golden Age",
86	86	21 and, by 1856, was home to ten railroads; Marion County's
87	87	22 history has been associated with the Chicago & Eastern
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98	98	1 Illinois Railroad (C&EI), which became part of the Missouri
99	99	2 Pacific in 1976 and is now the Union Pacific Railroad, which
100	100	3 was established by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, and the Illinois
101	101	4 Central Railroad, which merged in 1972 with the Gulf, Mobile,
102	102	5 and Ohio Railroad to form the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad,
103	103	6 which became the Canadian National Railway in 1998; and
104	104	7 WHEREAS, The Illinois Central, the original "Charter Line"
105	105	8 from Freeport to Centralia, is memorialized by the 1970 Steve
106	106	9 Goodman song, City of New Orleans; and
107	107	10 WHEREAS, The first oil well in Marion County was drilled
108	108	11 near Patoka in the northwest section of Marion County,
109	109	12 discovered by the Adams Oil and Gas company; by the end of
110	110	13 1937, there were 200 new producing wells in Illinois, 85 of
111	111	14 which were in Marion County with 18 on the Merryman Farm near
112	112	15 Patoka; and
113	113	16 WHEREAS, In 1938, the Salem Field was discovered in Marion
114	114	17 County and produced more than 20 million barrels in its first
115	115	18 12 months of operation from July 1938 to July 1939; Marion
116	116	19 County alone produced 93 million barrels in 1939, with 259,000
117	117	20 barrels daily in March of 1940; in 1942, Salem became the
118	118	21 eastern terminus of a 550-mile petroleum pipeline from Texas;
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130	130	1 WHEREAS, Marion County boasts eight listings on the
131	131	2 National Register of Historic Places, the Sentinel Building
132	132	3 and Centralia Commercial Historic District of 55 buildings in
133	133	4 Centralia, the Illinois Central Railroad Water Tower & Pump
134	134	5 House and the Calendar Rohrbough House in Kinmundy, the
135	135	6 William Jennings Bryan Boyhood Home, the Badollet House, the
136	136	7 Charles and Naomi Bachmann House, and the Methodist Episcopal
137	137	8 Church (Grace United Methodist Church) located in Salem; and
138	138	9 WHEREAS, The Illinois State Historical Society currently
139	139	10 lists five historical markers in Marion County, commemorating
140	140	11 William Jennings Bryan (dedicated 1962), the Half-Way Tavern
141	141	12 (dedicated 1964), Salem (dedicated 1965), The Third Principal
142	142	13 Meridian (dedicated 1976), and the Centralia Coal Mine No. 5
143	143	14 Disaster (dedicated 1991); and
144	144	15 WHEREAS, The Illinois State Historical Society has awarded
145	145	16 the Sesquicentennial House of Worship Award for a number of
146	146	17 churches in Marion County who have continuously served for at
147	147	18 least 150 years, including the Little Grove Christian Church
148	148	19 in Walnut Hill (1838), the First United Presbyterian Church in
149	149	20 Centralia (1856), and the First Christian Church in Centralia
150	150	21 (1856); and
151	151	22 WHEREAS, The Salem Historical Commission has also
152	152	23 recognized the Lemen-Frakes House on their local registry for
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163	163	1 its connection to Abraham Lincoln, Rev. Benjamin Lemen and
164	164	2 Mary (Rand) Lemen, who co-founded the first college in
165	165	3 Illinois, and the Sobieski Polish Royal Family; and
166	166	4 WHEREAS, The Salem Historical Commission, the Marion
167	167	5 County Genealogical & Historical Society, the Centralia Area
168	168	6 Historical Society, and the Kinmundy Historical Society all
169	169	7 help promote the rich history of Marion County; therefore, be
170	170	8 it
171	171	9 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
172	172	10 HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
173	173	11 we congratulate Marion County on its 200th birthday and
174	174	12 acknowledge all of the contributions by the residents,
175	175	13 churches, community organizations, farmers, families, factory
176	176	14 workers, and community leaders that have had an impact on our
177	177	15 State and the nation; and be it further
178	178	16 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
179	179	17 presented to the Marion County Board as an expression of our
180	180	18 respect and esteem for a vibrant first two hundred years and a
181	181	19 leading example of progress.
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