Godfrey (Illinois)
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Location in Illinois
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Illinois | ||
| County : | Madison County | ||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 57 ′ N , 90 ° 12 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 16,286 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 173.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 94.0 km 2 (approx. 36 mi 2 ) of which 94.0 km 2 (approx. 36 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 186 m | ||
| Postal code : | 62035 | ||
| Area code : | +1 618 | ||
| FIPS : | 17-30094 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 409107 | ||
| Website : | www.godfreyil.org | ||
| Mayor : | Michael J. McCormick | ||
Godfrey is a place in the west of the American state Illinois . Godfrey is located in Madison County and is approximately 25 miles from downtown St. Louis , from which Godfrey is separated by the Mississippi River . This makes the place part of Metro-East , the eastern part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan region . As of 2000 Godfrey had a good 16,000 inhabitants.
history
Godfrey was founded by Benjamin Godfrey (1794-1862) and named after him, who settled in 1834 with his wife and eight daughters in what was then known as Scarritt's Prairie . A native of Massachusetts, Godfrey was a wealthy businessman and former ship captain. Godfrey knew Theron Baldwin (1801–1870), a preacher and missionary who, together with other theologians trained at Yale , wanted to bring education and faith to the settlers in the then pioneering areas of the USA. Under the influence of Baldwin and his own conversion , Godfrey looked for a way to spend his own fortune in the Christian sense, true to the motto [W] has shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? ( Mk 8.36 KJV ) In 1838 Godfrey founded the Monticello Female Seminary on his lands , which offered secondary education for young women. The boarding school's motto came from Godfrey: If you educate a man you educate an individual; educate a woman and you educate a whole family. From 1838 to 1843 the school was headed by Theron Baldwin. The Monticello Seminary existed as a (two-year) junior college for women until 1971. Today the Lewis and Clark Community College is operated on the former Monticello campus . The Benjamin Godfrey Memorial Chapel , a 1854 New England style chapel of the Monticello Seminary , was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, making it a listed building.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara J. Mitchell: "O Fairest Monticello": Monticello Female Seminary . In: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society . Vol. 93, No. 3 (Fall 2000), pp. 248-272, JSTOR -ID 40193343 .
- ↑ ILLINOIS - Madison County on the National Register of Historic Places: Benjamin Godfrey Memorial Chapel (NRHP 1979 listing, # 79000856) (Retrieved June 30, 2011.)