Vermilion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is part of the 'Danville, Illinois, Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Vermilion County. As of 2000, the population was 83,919. Its county seat is Danville.
Vermilion County is named after the Vermilion River, which courses through it. The river was named “Vermilion” after the bluffs above it, which are a red color of earth.
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Vermilion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is part of the 'Danville, Illinois, Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Vermilion County. As of 2000, the population was 83,919. Its county seat is Danville.
Vermilion County is named after the Vermilion River, which courses through it. The river was named “Vermilion” after the bluffs above it, which are a red color of earth.
The county has been under the flags of France, as part of New France, from 1682 to 1763, then transferred to Great Britain after the French and Indian War for 15 years until it changed hands again, this time to the colonies after the Revolutionary War when the area was ceded to Virginia and was known for a time as “the Illinois County of Virginia.”
The existence of saline springs in the county proved to be a strong attraction to early white men, and were mentioned as early as 1801, when Joseph Barron, an interpreter fluent in a number of Native American languages, stated in...
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