FAYVILLE
Alexander County/Illinois Genealogy Trails
This community was first known as
McElmurry Station. Then it was changed to Commerce Landing and
later Santa Fe and finally Fayville. It is possibly the oldest
settlement in Alexander County. An act of March 26, 1804
established a land office at Kaskaskia and John McElmurry, Joseph
Standlee, Abraham, Joshua and Thomas Flannary's claim to the
Spanish French Surveys of this ground were registered then. A
post office was established here in 1879.
--Source: HISTORY OF ALEXANDER, UNION AND
PULASKI COUNTIES, ILLINOIS, edited by William Henry Perrin, 1883,
Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publisher, 183 Lake
St. Reprinted in 1969.
Old Santa Fe Gets a New Name
Transcribed and submitted by Darrel Dexter
The old town of Santa Fe in Alexander
County will now be known as Fayville.
The change was made at the request of the Miami Powder Company.
(Jonesboro Gazette, Jonesboro, Illinois,
Saturday, 13 Jul 1906)
The post office was discontinued June 30, 1928. During World War I there was a Powder Plant here which made the town grow, but after an explosion at the plant, many people moved away.
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