Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Liverpool, IL

Liverpool is a village in Fulton County in west-central Illinois, located along the Illinois River in Liverpool Township.

The village site was first settled in 1826 by families including Joseph and Elizabeth Wilcoxen Allen, the John Farris family, the Joseph Smith family, and the Seth Hilton family, most of whom arrived by boat.

Before white settlement, the Liverpool site was a Native American village and burial mound group roughly 2,000 years old.

Liverpool's first businesses included a grist mill built in 1833 and a saw mill built in 1835.

A cholera epidemic brought to Liverpool by a riverboat passenger in 1848 killed thirteen people in the area.

In 1850, merchants from Liverpool and Canton organized to build a plank road connecting the two towns.

By 1860 Liverpool had two storage warehouses, beef- and pork-packing plants, grain markets for corn, rye, and wheat, a wood market, a coal market, and both flatboat and steamboat companies.

Liverpool enjoyed about thirty years of prosperity based on 'harvesting the river' — commercial fishing and mussel harvesting — and the town lay on the Eagle Packet Company's steamboat line.

Shortly after 1915, the Thompson Lake Drainage and Levee District drained many of the area's backwater lakes to create farmland and build flood levees, shrinking Liverpool's river-based economy.

Liverpool was incorporated as a village on April 26, 1957.