Lebanon, Illinois

City: Lebanon

County: Saint Clair

State: Illinois

Lat/Long: 38.6000, -89.8000

Lebanon was originally laid out in September 1814, and received a U.S. Post Office in November 1819. In February 1857, the General Assembly incorporated Lebanon as a town.

History of St. Clair County, Illinois (Philadelphia: Brink, McDonough, 1881), 337; James N. Adams, comp., Illinois Place Names (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1989), 415; “An Act to Incorporate the Town of Lebanon, in St. Clair County, Illinois,” 16 February 1857, Private Laws of Illinois (1857), 1116-22.