Ravenswood, thought to have been named for Lord Ravenswood, Sir Walter Scott's hero in The Bride of Lammermoor, was settled in the 1830s but was not incorporated until 1852. Most of its population is associated in some way with Century Aluminum's Ravenswood operations.
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