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Norway is an unincorporated community in Mission Township, LaSalle County, Illinois. Located along the Fox River , the community was the site of an early Norwegian-American settlement. Today it is the site of the State of Illinois Norwegian Settlers Memorial .
He had ten children by his first wife. In Illinois, he joined the Mormon Church and became an elder in that church, practicing medicine at the same time. He died of cholera on the homestead near Norway, Illinois in July 1849; his widow, Caroline, survived him three years. Jacob Slogvig married Serena, daughter of Thomas Madland, in March 1831.
The Norwegian Settlers Memorial is the official memorial of the U.S. state of Illinois maintained in honor of immigrants from the nation of Norway. This Memorial commemorates the Fox River Settlement, the site of the first permanent Norwegian-American immigrant settlement in the Midwest.
The Hauge Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church located at 3656 E. 2631st Road in Norway, Illinois.The church was built in 1847 for Norway's Lutheran congregation; the community had been founded thirteen years earlier as part of the Norwegian settlement of the Fox River Valley.
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One such family, the Borschsenius family, runs the Norway Store in the unincorporated community of Norway, in southern Mission Township, and the family has been deeply involved with businesses and the school district of nearby Serena and Sheridan. Ottawa was the first site of the famous Lincoln–Douglas debates on August 21, 1858. The ...
The community of Norway sits to the south of Sheridan at the intersection of Illinois Route 71 and County Highway 3. Due to the community's status as an unincorporated community in the State of Illinois, the community does not have a local government, fire district, school district, or local policing or postal services.
The road that ran through this settlement is today known as Norway Road. [7] [8] In 1834, Cleng Peerson led a group of settlers to a little settlement on the Illinois River, in the Fox River Valley. The community of Norway in LaSalle County, Illinois is the site of the Norwegian Settlers Memorial which was dedicated in 1934. [9]