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A settlement was reached in 2006, in which the museum received a $3.9 million payment, but was forced to vacate the property. It moved across the state line to a new site with a 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m 2) building in Zion, Illinois where it became the Russell Military Museum.
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Illinois Route 121 passes through the village, leading northwest 8 miles (13 km) to the center of Decatur and southeast 19 miles (31 km) to Sullivan. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the village of Mount Zion has a total area of 4.28 square miles (11.1 km 2), of which 0.003 square miles (1.9 acres), or 0.07%, are water. [2]
Flat Earth sign by Flat Earth theorist Wilbur Glenn Voliva Zion Industries at Shiloh Tabernacle, July 1904, Zion City, Illinois. Until the 1940s, Zion enshrined the Flat Earth doctrine in its religious code. [19] Man pouring two bottles of beer into trough into the sewer system during Prohibition in 1921, detail, from- Zion City, Ill., destroys ...
In the spring of 2016, students at Mount Zion High School created an exhibit on the Jim Crow era in the basement of the African-American Genealogical Society and Museum located in Decatur. [15] In remembrance of the Jim Crow era, students crafted an exhibit on lynchings, including the first lynching in Macon County. [15]
The Eli Ulery House is a historic house located on County Route 60 southeast of Mount Zion, Illinois. The house was built circa 1860 for Eli Ulery, an early settler of Macon County. The Italianate structures features bracketed eaves and a cupola atop the roof. Ulery came to the county in the 1830s; he worked as a cowboy until he started his own ...
Mount Zion Township is located in Macon County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 7,131 and it contained 2,878 housing units. [ 2 ] In 2009, Milam Township to the south was merged into Mount Zion Township.
Fort Daniel Conservation Area is a 200-acre (0.8 km 2) park located 4 miles (6.5 km) east of Mount Zion, Illinois. The land preserve protects the site of a ghost town, Whistleville. Today, the site centers on hiking and picknicking in the Big Creek watershed southeast of Decatur. [1]