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The Metamora Courthouse has two floors, with the first floor serving as a museum of local history and Illinois frontier law, and the second floor restored to its 1850s appearance as the county courtroom and adjacent judicial chambers.
Metamora was the county seat of Woodford County from 1843 until 1896. The Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site, a courthouse from this period, is preserved as an Illinois state historic site. Future President Abraham Lincoln and future Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I practiced law there. [citation needed]
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Some of the things Metamora is known for have to do with the school system in the Woodford County community.
Central Illinois history with themes of people, politics, work and farming: McPike Mansion: Alton: Madison: Metro-East: Historic house: Menard County Historical Society Museum: Petersburg: Menard: Central: Local history [45] Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site: Metamora: Woodford: Western: Historic site: Restored to 1850s period, also ...
This is the third installment in a three-part series on the history of Wayne County's courthouses. The red brick Federal-style courthouse in Wayne County's seat of Honesdale is a landmark opposite ...
A music video by country star Jason Aldean has drawn widespread attention in part for featuring a Tennessee courthouse that is known as the site of a heinous lynching that happened a century ago.
His very popular 1829 play Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags had a stage run over 60 years. [9] This play inspired four new Midwestern towns to adopt the name Metamora — Metamora, Ohio in the 1830s, Metamora Township, Michigan in 1838 after the 1836-37 Toledo War caused the removal of Metamora from Michigan Territory to Ohio, Metamora, Indiana also in 1838, and Metamora, Illinois in 1845.