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This list of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois, has 89 entries including Eads Bridge, which spans into Missouri and which the National Park Service credits to Missouri's National Historic Landmark list. Also added are two sites that were once National Historic Landmarks before having their designations removed.
The Virginia Monument is located on West Confederate Avenue on the Southwest side of Gettysburg National Park. The monument consists of three different parts: a bronze General Robert E. Lee perched on his horse, Traveller; a granite pedestal with inscriptions; and a bronze group of Confederate soldiers at the base of the monument.
This is a list of properties and districts in Illinois that are on the National Register of Historic Places.There are over 1,900 in total. Of these, 85 are National Historic Landmarks.
The Ulysses S. Grant Home in Galena, Illinois is the former home of Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general and later the 18th president of the United States.The home was designed by William Dennison [3] and constructed in 1859 - 1860. [2]
The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument; Lincoln Memorial Bridge; Abraham Lincoln Memorial Garden; Lincoln Monument (Dixon, Illinois) Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial; List of monuments and memorials on the SIU-C Campus
The Newcomb Hotel, located adjacent to both the Gardner Museum and Washington Park, was a former 130-room, five-story hotel built in 1888. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] It was designed by St. Louis architect Issac S. Taylor and funded by Quincy-Chicago businessman Richard Newcomb, who owned the Gem City Paper Mill.
The Confederate Monument in Augusta, Georgia was dedicated in 1878 to the Confederate dead of Richmond County. A statue of Stonewall Jackson is near its base accompanying statues of Generals Robert E. Lee, W. H. T. Walker and T. R. R. Cobb. The designer of the monument was VanGunder and Young of Philadelphia.
Monument to Victims of the Maine, in 1930. There have been numerous memorials to the war in Cuba, including sites preserved by engineers right after the war and numerous monuments that have been preserved by Cuba to this day, although few Americans have been able to visit since U.S. banned travel to Cuba in 1963.