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Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Pages in category "Ghost towns in Illinois" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
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First Coles County Almshouse, c.1890. From 1857 until 1869, the Coles County Poor Farm was located in Charleston Township near the small town of Loxa, Illinois.In 1870, the county purchased 260 acres from A. N. Graham in Section 35 of Ashmore Township for a new farm, which was crossed by the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad.
These huge, abandoned historic homes date back to at least 1850 and are priced as low as $1,000. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . Fixer-uppers are all the rage right now.
Take a virtual tour of the country by seeing the most haunted houses in every state. There are grand mansions and quaint historic homes, but they have one thing in common: a lot of ghosts.
The Scutt Mansion was featured in a season two episode of Paranormal Lockdown, where former homeowner Andrea Magosky quoted that the "house is cursed" after the house claimed her son Seth who died from an abdominal aneurysm and seriously injuring her husband, Patrick who fell down a spiral staircase he built, breaking his back.
“If I’m buying the Amityville Horror House and I don’t actually know the background of it, I think that should be disclosed.”
The Saline River of southeastern Illinois where John Crenshaw at the Illinois Salines leased out Kentucky slaves who boiled down salt brine water from the river into usable salt for sale. Kidnapping a free black from a free state to be sold into American slavery, 1834 in which Crenshaw was an active participant.