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  2. Norway, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    This memorial commemorates the Fox River Settlement, the site of the first permanent Norwegian-American immigrant settlement in the Midwest. [8] Norsk Museum is located 9 miles northeast of Ottawa, Illinois on highway 71. The museum is located in a former Norwegian Lutheran Church which served as a house of worship from 1848 until 1918.

  3. List of the oldest buildings in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Carrollton, Illinois: 1829 Residence Oldest house in Carrollton John Patton Log Cabin: Lexington, Illinois: 1829 Residence One of the oldest buildings in McLean County, Illinois Beecher Hall: Jacksonville, Illinois: 1829-1830 College Building Oldest college building in Illinois and the first built in the state Mermaid House Hotel: Lebanon ...

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Illinois

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    Lincoln Courthouse Square Historic District, Logan County East Dubuque School, Jo Daviess County Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County Illinois State Capitol, Sangamon County Dennis Otte Round Barn, Stephenson County Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, Lee County Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria County General Dean Suspension Bridge, Clinton County

  5. Category : Churches on the National Register of Historic ...

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    Christ Episcopal Church (Joliet, Illinois) Christ Episcopal Church (Springfield, Illinois) Church of Christ (Perry, Illinois) Church of the Epiphany (Chicago) Church of the Holy Family (Cahokia Heights, Illinois) Churches in Sycamore Historic District; Clear Creek Meeting House; Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Peoria, Illinois)

  6. Long before it was washed away by Ohio River floodwaters, there was a metal grate in the floor of the first bank building in Illinois. Really just a log house in Old Shawneetown, owner John ...

  7. List of the oldest churches in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The church added a basement in the 1950s, and added the new church in 1997 (keeping the old church in its location). As of October 27, 2021, they will celebrate their 183rd Anniversary, being the 6th oldest church in Illinois, 49th oldest in the United States and the 224th oldest in the world. [citation needed]

  8. List of oldest church buildings - Wikipedia

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    St. Thaddeus Monastery or Qara Kelisa [11] (meaning 'black church') in Chaldoran County, Iran is also noted by UNESCO World Heritage Centre as relating to 66 AD: "According to Armenian tradition such a location was chosen because saint Thaddeus built the earliest church—parts of which are still believed to be in place as the base of the old ...

  9. Archaeologists uncover one of the world's oldest churches

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    Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world.