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Location of Pike County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pike County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pike County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Pittsfield Historic District is a historic district in Pittsfield, Illinois, the county seat of Pike County. The district is centered on the Pike County Courthouse and the surrounding courthouse square; it also encompasses nearby residential areas. The courthouse was built in 1894–95; architect Henry Elliott based its Romanesque design off ...
Both the grade school and high school were located in this building. Its large clock and bell were donated by Colonel Ross and mounted in the tower. The school closed in 1955 and was unoccupied until 1978 when it was renovated and became the home of the Pike County Historical Society and the Pike County Historic Museum.
The Gazetteer of Illinois and Missouri, published in 1822, mentioned Chicago as "a village of Pike County" containing 12 or 15 houses and about 60 or 70 inhabitants. The New Philadelphia Town Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, designated a National Historic Landmark in 2009, and established as a National Park ...
Free Frank McWorter purchased a 160-acre tract in Pike County, Illinois in 1830 and settled with his family in 1831. [3] McWorter founded a town, which he thought might benefit from increasing commerce in Illinois due to the planned Illinois and Michigan Canal. He purchased the 80-acre tract from the federal government in 1835. [3]
Pittsfield is a city in and the county seat of Pike County, Illinois, United States. [3] The population was 4,576 at the 2010 census, an increase from 4,211 in 2000. History
John Greene Shastid, the builder of the house, was born in Kentucky in 1798. By 1828, he and his family had settled in Illinois at the Sangamon County town of New Salem. . Seeking economic opportunities in sparsely-settled Pike County, Shastid and his family moved to Pittsfield in 1836; at the time, the city had only six other h
0.75 miles (1.21 km) south of County Road 795N at the Illinois River Versailles: 2: Mount Sterling Commercial Historic District ... Pike County Pope County. 4] ...