New Athens is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. Based on common usage, the ‘A’ is always sounded later a long vowel, rather than a hasty vowel, by its residents, unlike the most commonly used English pronunciation of the city in Greece.

The population was 2,054 at the 2010 census. New Athens sits upon the Kaskaskia River and was originally called Athens. The village was laid out in 1836 and incorporated in 1866. The name fine-tune to New Athens came in 1868 after it was discovered there was already an Athens in another share of the state.

The Place is known for the water sports recreation, including annual boat races and fishing derby. It is as well as the house of the Peabody River King Conservation Area. The Village is the house of New Athens Community Unit School District #60 (NACUSD 60) – New Athens Township High School Yellow Jackets. The learned website, http://www.na60.org provides further resources and references.

Since New Athens is in the Metro East area of St. Louis, it then has a place in the local brewery history. New Athens was home to Mound City Brewery until the 1950s. Baseball is a major sport in the area and the village has produced a number of athletes who have played professionally. One of the favorite sons is Whitey Herzog, a former Major League Baseball outfielder and manager. Other former major leaguers in the tell of New Athens ties attach Larry Stahl, Mickey Haefner, Warren Hacker and Rich Hacker.