Bloomfield, Illinois

City: Bloomfield

County: Johnson

State: Illinois

Lat/Long: 37.4500, -88.8667

Originally a part of Cache Township, Bloomfield is a town situated near the center of Johnson County, Illinois just north of Vienna. Bloomfield received a U.S. Post Office in 1819, but had little else aside from a tavern and a store until after the Civil War.

Mrs. Pleasant T. Chapman, A History of Johnson County Illinois (Herrin, IL: Press of the Herrin News, 1925), 280, 292-93, 320.