08/24/2026
Staunton, IL đź“Ť
While finishing up a job for a client in Staunton, we decided to stop and take some pictures of downtown. It seems like every time we come over here, there is a new mural or artwork painted downtown.
Random fact about Staunton's name sake:
A man named Stanton bought land here, then decided to move on and gave the land to the village for a square. At the meeting to discuss the post office someone suggested they name the village Stanton as a “thank you” to Mr. Stanton. The suggestion was accepted and the application for a post office at Stanton went off to Washington, D.C. There the clerk who handled the request must have thought those westerners couldn’t spell. The grant came back with the name spelled S-t-a-u-n-t-o-n, which was the name of a town in the Appalachian region of Virginia. It would take time and effort to have the error corrected, and no one really cared. Anyway, Staunton, VA was and still is pronounced “Stanton”. And so it was in Staunton, Illinois for many years. Some say that the people here began saying Staunton as we do today only after their throats were so full of coal dirt that they could no longer say Stanton.
