years, with the post office housed inside Naugle's general store. There was a one-room school known as 'Vinyard School'. A larger framed two-room school was built and ready in the fall of 1917. Several years later it burned down, and a large two-story brick five-room school building was built. J. Ogden opened the first store in the village. There was a forty-room hotel to accommodate the miners. Other stores included the Company Store, owned and operated by C. V. Parker; a grist mill and a grocery store run by Charlie Manier and a general store. The Gibbon's Drug Store had a registered pharmacist and a soda fountain, whilst another drug store also sold patent medicines and sundries. Dr. M. D. Empson and Dr. R. G. Bond practiced medicine in Harco. Neotere “Butch” LePontre ran the local meat market. The village had a shoe store, blacksmith, and a two-chair barbershop. There was a one-room jailhouse. For many years there was a wood-framed Baptist church in Harco and the Harco Baptist Church still exists. The Old Brushy Cemetery is nearby. Population The present population of Harco is near 200 but in the 1920s the population was about 1,200, and the village, which was never incorporated, supported two drug stores, three groceries, two general stores, and a feed mill. The Webber interests of the Bank of Galatia operated a bank there until the end of that decade. Amish settlement In May 2007 a group of 60 Amish men, women and children moved from Wisconsin to Saline County, Illinois where they purchased almost of land to farm near Harco. At the junction of Harco Road and Brown Road they erected a school house that was destroyed by a hurricane in 2009. In 2013 the Amish there had one church district. References A Pictorial History of Saline County Illinois 1847–1991 Published by Harrisbury Daily Register and Saline County Genealogical Society online autobiography of Gladys Quinn Small Harrisburg Daily Register Internet Archive: Saline County Historical Society presents the Saline County centennial, 1847–1947 Unincorporated communities in Saline County, Illinois Unincorporated communities in Illinois Coal towns in Illinois Populated places established in 1916