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English Farm


category : Historic Buildings
As you drive by this farm, your eye is drawn upward to a towering brick structure near the modern brick home. The building, erected around 1913, is one of a dozen brick water towers still standing in Illinois.


Hours: Call for appointment
Address: 7480 Hwy 133
Phone: 217-884-2310

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Grave Of Sarah Hanks Varnell

Abraham Lincoln's aunt was buried in Ogden County cemetary in 1876

Paris, IL Cemeteries


Indian Treaty Site

A marker commemorates where two important trails intersected on the prairie - Detroit to St Louis and Peoria to Terre Haute. In 1765

Paris, IL Historic Sites

North Arm

North Arm is the oldest continuously operating Catholic church in the Springfield diocese. Founded in 1817 by 17 families from Kentucky, the journey was blessed by Fr. Theodore Badin, the first Catholic priest ordained in the U.S. The current church was built in 1901

Paris, IL Historic Churches


Things to do Historic Buildings near Paris, IL

Prairie Creek Library

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English Farm

As you drive by this farm, your eye is drawn upward to a towering brick structure near the modern brick home. The building, e...

Dominy Memorial Library

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J.H. Hawes Elevator

Restored grain elevator listed on the National Historic Register. Free tours....

Keeley Institute

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