Russellville, Illinois
History
History
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Russellville is rooted in a fort built by Samuel and Jonathan Allison near the site of an abandoned Indian village known as "Little Village" in the early 1800s.Mary Tracy White, "[Historical Notes on Lawrence County, Illinois](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40187017)," *Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society*, Vol. 10, No. 3 (October 1917\), p. 368\. A town site was platted in 1835, and named for the Russell brothers, August, Andrew, and Clement, who provided lumber for the settlement's first buildings. Russellville incorporated in 1875\.*[History of Crawford and Clark Counties, Illinois](https://books.google.com/books?id=Wi5EAQAAMAAJ)* (O.L. Baskin and Company, 1883\), p. 206\.


When was the town site platted in Russellville?