The O'Fallon Historical Society, O'Fallon, IL
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    Dates of Some Important Local Events

1802 Capt. Joseph Ogle settles in Ridge Prairie just west of O'Fallon
1807 Shiloh Methodist Church founded
1809 Bethel Baptist Church, northwest of O'Fallon, founded
1811 Block house built in west O'Fallon
1822 John Mason Peck settles in Rock Spring (east O'Fallon)
1827 Rock Spring Seminary, first college in Illinois, opens
1828 The Pioneer, first religious newspaper in Illinois, published at Rock Spring
1851 First coal mine sunk at Alma (west O'Fallon)
1854 O'Fallon Station founded
1855 O'Fallon Post Office established
1855-57 Ohio & Mississippi R.R. finished
1874 O'Fallon incorporates as a village
1891 Volunteer Fire Deparment chartered
1894 Electricity comes to O'Fallon
1895 O'Fallon Progress newspaper founded
1902 Smiley Bros. Telephone Co. opens
1903 First commercial bank founded -- First National Bank
1903 First O'Fallon High School commencement
1905 O'Fallon becomes a city
1930 Public Library opens

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