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Fayette County, Illinois
Fayette County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Marquis de La Fayette, French nobleman who served in the
American Revolution Army commanding French troops at the battle of Yorktown. Demographics:
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Neighboring Counties:
- Northeast: Shelby County
- East: Effingham County
- Southeast: Clay County
- South: Marion County
- Southwest: Clinton County; Bond County
- Northwest: Montgomery County
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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Penn Foster High School
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