St. Francisville, IL

St. Francisville or Saint Francisville is a city in Lawrence County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 568 residents. St. Francisville is rooted in a stockade built by Joseph Tougas in the early 1810s. The city was platted by Tougas's widow in the mid-1830s. St. Francisville is noted for a locally grown variety of popcorn, trademarked as "Black Jewell" for the color of the corn kernels. A newcomer can read St. Francisville through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, St. Francisville comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. St. Francisville is located in southeastern Lawrence County in the southeast corner of Denison Township. St. Francisville is on the west bank of the Wabash River, which forms the state border with Indiana.