Editing Tiskilwa, Illinois (section)

== History ==

=== Early history ===

Prior to and following [[European colonization of the Americas|European settlement]] in Illinois, Tiskilwa (formerly called Indiantown) was a [[Potawatomi]] village.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://villageoftiskilwa.org/about-us/ |access-date=July 18, 2023 |website=Village of Tiskilwa |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Percival Graham |first=Rennick |date=January 1935 |title=The Peoria and Galena Trail and Coach Road and the Peoria Neighborhood |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40187848 |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=351–431 |jstor=40187848 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Bradsby |first=Henry C. |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01002028/ |title=History of Bureau County, Illinois |publisher=Chicago World Publishing Company |year=1885 |pages=277; 423}}</ref> In 1836, Augustus Langworthy platted and established a town called Windsor where Tiskilwa now stands. In 1840, Windsor and Indiantown were consolidated and renamed to Tiskilwa.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Tiskilwa was then officially [[Incorporated town|incorporated]] in 1856. Tiskilwa emerged as a regional economic and cultural center integrating its own administrative capacities, schools, churches and shops serving a small population of townspeople and farm families from the surrounding {{convert|3|to|5|mi|0}}. It was a small community whose center was three blocks of Main Street around which were located its churches, cafes, taverns, grocery stores, beauty parlors, barbershops and other businesses.

=== History of Tiskilwa Schools ===
[[File:Lone Tree country school.jpg|thumb|left|Country school in Tiskilwa]]
Tiskilwa High School closed in 1996. High school students from Tiskilwa now attend [[Princeton High School (Illinois)]]. Tiskilwa grade school is now owned by the Princeton Elementary School District and houses the Bureau Marshall Putnam counties' special education cooperative (BMP), and the Bureau County Special Schools Bureau Educational Support Team (BEST Program), a public K-12 alternative school.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/bestprogra/|title=Facebook|website=www.facebook.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bmpspeced.org/|title=BMP|website=www.bmpspeced.org}}</ref>
 
The first school buildings in Tiskilwa dated to 1838.<ref name=":1" /> A newer building was erected in 1867.<ref name=":1" /> In 1978, the modern high school building was erected, which closed with the deactivation of the school system in 1996.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} The first graduating class from Tiskilwa was in 1878 with a graduating class membership of two.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}