Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Granville, IL

Granville is a village in Putnam County in north-central Illinois and is the largest community in the county.

Granville was surveyed on April 7, 1836, and was named after Granville, Massachusetts at the suggestion of Thomas Ware, the first settler, who arrived in 1833 and built the first house there in 1834.

Granville was incorporated on March 17, 1859.

The opening of the St. Paul Mine in neighboring Mark in 1903 and the Berry Mine in nearby Standard in 1905 transformed Granville from a quiet farming center into the commercial hub of a coal-mining region.

Granville's population quadrupled during the coal boom, jumping from 320 residents in 1900 to 1,391 in 1910.

On April 20, 2004, a series of tornadoes struck Granville, destroying the local primary school, the high school baseball diamond, and numerous houses.

The 2020 census counted 1,359 people in Granville.

Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Charles 'Red' Ruffing, a star of the New York Yankees' dynasty of the 1930s, was born in Granville.

Granville is part of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area and covers less than one square mile of prairie about five miles east of Hennepin, the Putnam County seat.