Editing Sorento, Illinois (section)

==History==
Sorento was founded as a village in 1882.<ref name="founders">Sorento Centennial Committee. (1982) "Founders". Sorento Centennial 1882-1982  (p 7).Sorento, IL: Sorento Homecoming Association.</ref> The town was laid out and platted on August 15, 1882, by August H. Scharf, a local farmer and businessman, and his father, William Scharf.<ref name="founders"/> They named the town Sorento after [[Sorrento, Florida]], a town they had once visited.<ref name="founders"/> The town grew quickly and by the end of 1883 there were over 500 residents.<ref>Unknown. (August 15, 1919). Sorento Founded in 1882. The Sorento Blade, p. 1.</ref>

The Sorento Coal Mine opened in 1883 and was in operation until March 31, 1914.<ref>Ingles, Clifford. (1982) "Sorento Coal Company". Sorento Centennial 1882-1982  (p 30).Sorento, IL: Sorento Homecoming Association.</ref>

[[Charles Lindbergh]] is known to have landed in fields just outside Sorento while preparing for his solo trans-Atlantic flight.<ref>Ingles, Clifford. (1992) "A Vanishing Time". ''History of Shoal Creek Volume III and Ripson Bridge.'' (pp. 28-30).Sorento, IL: Sorento Homecoming Association.</ref>