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Old Medford High School: Old Medford High School: October 6, 1983 : 22-24 Forest St. Now houses condominiums and a community theater. 26: Old Ship Street Historic District: Old Ship Street Historic District: April 14, 1975
Knoxville is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,911 at the 2010 census. The population was 2,911 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical Area .
The Walnut Grove Farm is a farm complex and historic district located on Knox Station Road 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Knoxville, Illinois. George A. Charles, the son of one of Knoxville's founders, established the farm in 1835. Charles, his sons A.G. and A.P., and A.G.'s son George were all both successful farmers and prominent citizens of Knoxville.
The house also has a prominent history in the American Revolutionary War: Isaac Hall was the captain of the Medford minute company, and his house is one of the places Paul Revere stopped on the night of April 18–19, 1775 before the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
South Medford is home to Tufts University, which was chartered in 1852. The Crane Theological School at Tufts opened in 1869. The Crane Theological School at Tufts opened in 1869. A horse-powered street railway began running to Somerville and Charlestown in 1860.
The modern Knox County, Illinois, was organized in 1825, from Fulton County, itself a portion of the original St. Clair County. Like its neighbor to the south, Fulton County, for its Spoon River Drive, Knox County is also known for a similar scenic drive fall festival the first two weekends in October, the Knox County Drive.
The Knox County seat moved to Galesburg in 1873; the courthouse and hall of records subsequently housed the Knoxville city hall and public library respectively until 1978, when the city government moved to the hall and the courthouse became a museum. [2] The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 13, 1992. [1]
West Medford station in 1909. When the original Boston and Lowell Railroad (B&L) was laid out in the 1830s, West Medford was mostly farmland. The route of the new railroad (one of the oldest railroads in North America) was built on land acquired from Peter Chardon Brooks, who sold a strip for the right-of-way plus a parcel for the station on High Street.