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The Bishop Hill Colony was the landmark Swedish settlement in Western Illinois leading the large Swedish-American communities in Galesburg, Rock Island, and Chicago. Its archives, artifacts, and structures today are important documents for the study of immigration, ethnic heritage, and 19th century communitarian societies."
Bishop Hill State Historic Site is an open-air museum in Henry County, Illinois.It is located about 2 miles north of U.S. Route 34 in Bishop Hill, Illinois. [1]Colony Church built in 1848
Bishop Hill is a village in Henry County, Illinois, United States, along the South Edwards River. The population was 113 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] It is the home of the Bishop Hill State Historic Site , a park operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency .
Included in the buildings at Bishop Hill are a visitor's center, a museum, the colony church and a hotel. Bishop Hill is need of repairs and Anderson and Weaver are spearheading an effort to get ...
Historic sites from Chicago and Blue Island to Bishop Hill and Decatur have landed on Landmarks Illinois' 2024 list of endangered historic places.
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The Ballad of Bishop Hill, Quest for Utopia. Montezuma, Illinois: Sutherland Publishing. ISBN 9780930942021. Swanson, Troy (1998). "Those Crazy Swedes: Outside Influence on the Bishop Hill Colony". Nobler things to View: Collected Essays on the Erik-Janssonists. Bishop Hill, Illinois: Bishop Hill Heritage Association. OCLC 44105531. Wyman, Mark.
Bishop Hill Colony. April 27, 1970 : Bishop Hill Henry: Historic district of Swedish dissident commune founded in 1846. ... A Sandstone butte overlooking the Illinois ...