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Seymour’s history is
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The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Seymour is a census-designated place in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 317. It is part of Mahomet-Seymour Community Unit School District No. 3.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 303 to 317 (+5%). Half of its homes were built before 1959.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Seymour yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Seymour, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Seymour is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Seymour has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Wee Haven in Champaign, 8.3 miles away.

Seymour and the nearest listed places

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Wee HavenGeorge and Elsie Mattis HouseNorth State Street Historic DistrictMonticello Courthouse Square Historic DistrictFrancis and Abbie Solon HouseBurnham Athenaeum

Closest to Seymour

Wee HavenChampaign · Prairie School8.3miGeorge and Elsie Mattis HouseChampaign · Georgian Revival9miNorth State Street Historic DistrictMonticello · District9.2miMonticello Courthouse Square Historic DistrictMonticello · Brown, Seeley9.5miFrancis and Abbie Solon HouseChampaign · Italianate9.5mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Wee Haven’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Seymour?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Seymour’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

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📜 Scott📜 Bondville📜 Sangamon📜 Mahomet
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