Augusta, Illinois

City: Augusta

County: Hancock

State: Illinois

Lat/Long: 40.2167, -90.9500

Augusta, Illinois is a village in Hancock County, Illinois. Situated twenty miles southwest of Macomb, Augusta came into existence in 1832, when Joel Catlin and William D. Abernathy came to the area from Augusta, Georgia, giving the name Augusta to the new settlement. The U.S. Post Office Department established a post office in the village in March 1834, and Abernathy became the first postmaster. Two years later, Catlin, Abernathy, and other proprietors surveyed and laid out the village.

Th. Gregg, History of Hancock County, Illinois (Chicago: Chas. C. Chapman, 1880), 511-12; Edward Callary, Place Names of Illinois (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009), 18.