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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."
Pilgrim Family Farmstead: Pilgrim Family Farmstead: May 8, 1979 : SW of Kewanee on Church Rd. Kewaunee: Brick farmhouse and wooden windmill mounted on barn. Built 1907. [18] 13: St. Lawrence Catholic Church: St. Lawrence Catholic Church
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 .
Kewanee (/ k iː ˈ w ɑː n iː / ⓘ) is a city in Henry County, Illinois. "Kewanee" is the Winnebago word for greater prairie chicken , [ 4 ] which lived there. The population was 12,509 in the 2020 census, down from 12,916 in 2010.
The Frederick Francis Woodland Palace is a historic house located in Francis Park 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northeast of Kewanee, Illinois.Frederick Francis, a multi-talented architect, engineer, and artist, began work on the house in 1889; while he and his wife moved into the house a year later, he continued to work on it until his death in 1926.
The Cambridge Lutheran church was established as an offshoot of Lars Paul Esbjörn's Augustana Lutheran Church in nearby Andover, Illinois, and was in line with the established church. But religious-related tensions continued between the Augustana Lutherans (including Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois ) and the people of Bishop Hill ...
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The Hill family are an Anglo-Irish family headed by the Marquess of Downshire. The Barons Trevor and Barons Sandys are members of junior branches of the family.