O'Fallon Historical Society: Important Dates

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