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Bald Knob Cross, officially known as the Bald Knob Cross of Peace, is a large white cross located in Alto Pass, Illinois, United States. [1] The structure is 111 feet (34 m) tall. The base of the cross is 1,034 feet above sea level and overlooks the Shawnee National Forest. Originally completed in 1963, the cross itself stands 111 feet tall, is ...
The population was 342 at the 2020 census, a decrease from 391 in 2010. The Bald Knob Cross and Bald Knob Wilderness are nearby. Alto Pass lies roughly 5.1 miles to the northwest of downtown Cobden, Illinois. Illinois Route 127 runs just west of the village's downtown area.
Bald Knob is one of only four mountain summits in West Virginia that rise above 4,800 feet (1,500 m), the other three being Spruce Knob, Thorny Flat, and an unnamed summit near Snowshoe, WV. The south face of Bald Knob is the site of the headwaters of Leatherbark Run , West Virginia's highest stream.
The Bald Knob Wilderness, one of these parcels, is a roadless parcel of land within the national forest. Visitors who travel by road to the Bald Knob Cross, as they drive up the east side of the mountain to the cross, skirt the Bald Knob Wilderness on their drive. As with the mountaintop cross, the nearest municipality is Alto Pass, Illinois.
Bald Knob is the highest peak in the area. In 1938, Presley and Lirely erected a small cross on Bald Knob for the Easter service. The Bald Knob Easter service with the small lighted cross became an annual tradition. Presley began a campaign to build a large, permanent cross on Bald Knob. He secured $100 pledges from many local residents to buy ...
Landsborough–Maleny Road is a state-controlled district road (number 494). [6] [7] It carries traffic from Landsborough on the Glass House Mountains Road, via Bald Knob, to Maleny, a distance of 15.2 kilometres (9.4 mi).
I told my mom that I was going out, and I had asked her for directions to get to the cemetery where Bryan was buried. The drive was petrifying. Time was kind of slowing down. I didn’t know how I was going to come to terms with all this emotion and grief I still had pent up. I turned in to the cemetery. I went to the block where he was buried in.
Bald Knob: 55: I-57 north / US 64 east / US 67 north – Newport, St. Louis, Augusta, McCrory, Memphis: Northern end of I-57/US 64/US 67 concurrency: AR 367 north: Former US 67: AR 258 west: Jackson: No major junctions: White AR 87 south – Denmark, Bradford: Independence: Pleasant Plains: AR 157: Southside: AR 230 west / AR 14S east ...