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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, erected around 1913, is one of a dozen brick water towers still standing in ...
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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

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'

Paris, IL Gardens

Grave Of Sarah Hanks Varnell

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

Paris, IL Cemeteries

Edgar County Courthouse

This elegant 1893 brick and stone building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Paris, IL Historic Courthouses

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 near Paris, IL

Mile Marker Historical Monument

This stone identifies one of the last original road markers that dotted the first road from Vincennes to Chicago....

Clinton Country Club

Course Access: PrivateHoles: 9Reserve Advance Tee Times: Yes...

Gillespie Country Club

Course Access: Semi-PrivateHoles: 9Reserve Advance Tee Times: Yes...

Wildwood Golf Course

Course Access: PublicHoles: 9Reserve Advance Tee Times: Yes...

Fairview Drive-In in Newton

One of only 12 remaining Drive-In Theatres in Illinois, this complex features new shows April - September each weekend....