Paris, Illinois
Vance Park
Opposite the art center and adjcent to City Hall, Vance Park is an extensively landscaped sunken garden featuring a serpentine brick wall from Thomas Jefferson's design at Charlottesville and lions' h...
Vance Park
Compare pioneer and Victorian lifestyle when you visit the log cabin and brick Italianate home. An exhibition gallery and program space in an adjacent building features rotating exhibits of the society'
Paris, IL MuseumsAs 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
Paris, IL Historic BuildingsA marker commemorates where two important trails intersected on the prairie - Detroit to St Louis and Peoria to Terre Haute. In 1765
Paris, IL Historic SitesNorth 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 Churches9 mazes, bon fires, hayrack rides, artisan gifts, 50 varities of pumpkins, gourds, indian corn. 7 Mazes (adult challenging) 5 mazes (wheelchair accessible)bonfires (appointment only) school tours available (appointment only) please no pets!
Paris, IL MazesThe 1879 birthplace of the native Springfield poet/artist, this house remained Lindsay's only home until his death there in 1...
The old oourthouse musuem houses numerous exhibits and collections of natural and cultural objects reflecting the distinctive...
Governor Bond Lake was created in 1963 to supply the expanding city with a fresh water supply. This beautiful lake is a wonde...
The Christian County Coal Mine Museum features the history of and memorabilia pertaining to coal mining in Christian County. ...
Walk through an 1820 log house, the 1839 Christian County courthouse where Lincoln argued cases, an 1854 farmhouse and an 185...