​Nauvoo's first name was Quashquema, a Fox Indian word meaning "peaceful place." Nauvoo, a Hebrew word for "beautiful place" or "pleasant land", is...
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A visit to the George M. Verity River Museum takes you back to the era of the river steamboats before the modern day diesels came into being.
Buil...
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About The Museum of Repertoire Americana
Built and maintained by the Midwest old Settlers and Threshers Association, Inc., the Museum of Repertoir...
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Midwest Electric Railway is always looking for a reason to take a ride on the rails. If you or a group that you know would like to take a ride on t...
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About Us The Society The Dover Historical Society was established in 1995 following the gift of the former glove factory-creamery building for...
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The Library and its third floor Museum Opened in 1893.Fairfield's former library building, the first of 1,689 endowed by Andrew Carnegie, is listed...
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About Us
The historic Newcomb-Stillwell Mansion, the home of the Quincy Museum, is a wonderful example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture se...
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In 1962 the Quincy Museum began as a small museum for Indian artifacts in Indian Mounds Park in Quincy, Illinois. The original building was constru...
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Mission Statement:
The purpose of the Heritage Seekers is to collect and preserve information pertaining to interesting historical events of the...
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1st Floor Tillman Hall, Western Illinois University,
Macomb, IL
Founded in 1975, the Museum of Geology is an arm of Western Illinois University's Department of Geology. Originally conceived as a learning resourc...
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Music in the 1920s was pushing new boundaries. As radios made their way into people’s homes, new sounds, from different parts of the c...
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Mission Statement:
The mission of the Wapello County Historical Society is to identify, collect, and preserve the manifestations of Wapello County...
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River's Edge Gallery is located in a wonderful 1880's mansion in historic downtown Muscatine. We offer three floors, all open to the public, of ori...
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