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Location of Sangamon County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sangamon County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
It has been rumored that Bonnie and Clyde used a house in Grove City as a hideout while running from the law. The house still stands today, however, it is in very poor condition. The Grove City Methodist Cemetery is located in Mount Auburn Township. [2] Frank P. Sadler (1872–1931), Illinois state senator and lawyer, lived on a farm near Grove ...
The German name, Fachhallenhaus, is a regional variation of the term Hallenhaus ("hall house", sometimes qualified as the "Low Saxon hall house").In the academic definition of this type of house the word Fach does not refer to the Fachwerk or "timber-framing" of the walls, but to the large Gefach or "bay" between two pairs of the wooden posts (Ständer) supporting the ceiling of the hall and ...
The generic German term is Wohnstallhaus from Wohnung ("dwelling"), Stall ("byre", "sty)" and Haus ("house"). From the Iron Age onwards the longhouse, developed from the byre-dwellings of the Bronze Age with its domestic area and adjacent cattle bays, was found across the North German Plain. As a result of the keeping of ever larger herds of ...
The Manske–Niemann Farm is a historic 462-acre (187 ha) farm complex located at 13 Franks Lane near Litchfield, Illinois. The farm was most likely established in the 1850s and was purchased by German immigrant Michael Manske in 1863. Manske and his family developed and expanded the farm in three main stages.
Tom Candy Ponting (1824-1916), cattleman who drove the first herd of cattle from Texas to New York City; Frank P. Sadler (1872–1931), Illinois state senator and lawyer, lived on a farm near Grove City. John Wesley Fribley (1906–2002), state senate (1934–1952), born in Pana; Yvonne Craig (1937–2015) was born in Taylorville, Illinois.
The South Side German Historic District is a neighborhood within Quincy, Illinois, United States just south of downtown. The neighborhood includes most of Quincy's rich German architecture. The region is also widely known as "Calftown", named for the number of calves once owned by its inhabitants. [1]
Morgan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 32,915. [1] Its county seat is Jacksonville. [2] Morgan County is part of the Jacksonville, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Springfield–Jacksonville–Lincoln, IL Combined Statistical Area.