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Gays is in the southeast corner of Moultrie County, along Illinois Route 16, which leads east 6 miles (10 km) to Mattoon and west-southwest 17 miles (27 km) to Shelbyville. Sullivan, the Moultrie county seat, is 14 miles (23 km) to the northwest. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gays has a total area of 0.39 square miles (1.01 km 2), all land.
Area [2] Map Adams County: 001: Quincy: 1825: Pike County: John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth President of the United States: 64,441: 855 sq mi (2,214 km 2) Alexander County: 003: Cairo: 1819: Union County: William M. Alexander, settler and state representative in the Illinois General Assembly: 4,695: 236 sq mi (611 km 2) Bond County: 005 ...
The 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story building received a large addition by Mark Dunham in 1884 on the west side; Mark used it as the Oaklawn Farm office. In 1935, the Dunham Woods Riding Club was founded in the former house. The other two particularly significant buildings are barns used by the Dunham family. Both are on the southeast end of the property.
The farm's Classical Revival farmhouse, which dates from 1912, is representative of the spread of individualized architecture to farms; its design includes two-story Doric columns along the front porch and a pyramidal roof with a pediment-like dormer in front. The farm's main barn, a wooden structure used for livestock, was built in 1906.
Carnefix Mill, a three–story stone grist mill was built at Irish Grove 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Davis on Rock Run creek by George Raymer in the 1850s. The mill was still standing in 1970. [4] Davis Manufacturing Company Mill, built in Davis in 1876, was a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stone flour mill with four run of stone powered by steam. The mill ...
This is a list of census-designated places in the U.S. state of Illinois, by county. Census-designated places (CDPs) are unincorporated communities lacking elected municipal officers and boundaries with legal status. [1] The term "census designated place" has been used as an official classification by the U.S. Census Bureau since 1980. [2]
There is only one building in the entire town (not including the outhouse), and this was a grocery store built in 1912. It was later sold to Helen and Roy Tuttle in 1982, who created a restaurant that serves their famous Moonburger. [2] One feature is that the store/restaurant has a guest-book with visitors from all 50 states and around the world.
Dwight is a village located mainly in Livingston County, Illinois, with a small portion in Grundy County.The population was 4,032 at the 2020 census.Dwight contains an original stretch of U.S. Route 66, and from 1892 until 2016 continuously used a railroad station designed in 1891 by Henry Ives Cobb. [4]