Freeman Spur, IL

Freeman Spur is a village in Williamson and Franklin Counties, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 268 residents. Freeman Spur is rooted in several small communities that sprang up in the early 1900s with the opening of the Possum Ridge coal mine. These small communities voted to merge and incorporate as "Freeman Spur" in 1913. Freeman Spur's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Illinois setting. The local scoop is how Freeman Spur's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The shaft of the Possum Ridge Mine, which opened in 1908, is located at Freeman Spur. In 1912, a tornado destroyed above-ground structures at the mine.