Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
[3] Landmark name Image Location County Culture Comments; 1: Albany Mounds Site: Albany: Albany Mounds Trail 4]: Whiteside: Middle Woodland: Hopewell: 2: Alton Military Prison Site: Alton: inside the block bounded by Broadway and William, 4th, and Mill Sts. 5]: Madison: Euro-American: 3: Apple River Fort Site: Elizabeth: 0.25 miles east-southeast of the junction of Myrtle and Illinois Sts. 6 ...
Franklin Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 18,467 at the 2020 census, up from 18,333 at the 2010 census. [ 2 ] It was named for real estate broker Lesser Franklin who bought acres of the area when it was a majority of farming fields.
In 1869, a monument was erected in the center of Franklin Square to commemorate the 700 McLean County citizens who died in the Civil War. [4] Commissioned to Haldeman Marble Works of Bloomington, Illinois, for $15,000, the monument stood 49 feet high with a Lemont limestone base. An inscription read, “McLean County’s Honored Sons: Fallen ...
The National Park Service determines which properties meet NHL criteria and makes nomination recommendations after an owner notification process. [1] The Secretary of the Interior reviews nominations and, based on a set of predetermined criteria, makes a decision on NHL designation or a determination of eligibility for designation. [ 2 ]
Lincoln Courthouse Square Historic District, Logan County East Dubuque School, Jo Daviess County Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County Illinois State Capitol, Sangamon County Dennis Otte Round Barn, Stephenson County Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, Lee County Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria County General Dean Suspension Bridge, Clinton County
Franklin Park may refer to some places in the United States: Franklin Park, Boston , a large public park in Boston, Massachusetts Franklin Park (Columbus park) , a park in Columbus, Ohio
Topographic map of Fort Kaskaskia showing the boundary of the redoubt earthworks and the entrance and exit of the fort Fort's key strategic location overlooking the Mississippi River valley. Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site is a 200-acre (0.8 km 2) park near Chester, Illinois, on a blufftop overlooking the Mississippi River.
Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park overlook platform and flag, June 2009. Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park is a park on the east side of the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois, directly across from the Gateway Arch and the city of St. Louis, Missouri. For 29 years, its major feature was the Gateway Geyser, a fountain that lifted water up ...