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Waterloo is located northeast of the center of Monroe County at (38.335243, -90.15268 Illinois Route 3 passes through the west side of the city, bypassing the downtown; it leads north 8 miles (13 km) to Columbia and southeast 13 miles (21 km) to Red Bud.
The center of the district includes Waterloo's town square, the site of the Monroe County Courthouse, as well as a two-block section of Main Street which forms the city's commercial core. The town square is surrounded by residential development on three sides, an unusual arrangement among small towns in Illinois.
The Peterstown House is a house in Waterloo, Illinois.The saltbox building was constructed in the mid-1830s; an addition was placed on its north side around the 1860s. Emory Peter Rogers, for whom the house and surrounding neighborhood were named, was its first owner.
Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 34,962. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Waterloo. [2]
The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, ... Timeline of Illinois This page was last edited on 31 January 2025, at 23:46 ...
Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site is a 200-acre (0.8 km 2) park near Chester, Illinois, on a blufftop overlooking the Mississippi River. It commemorates the vanished frontier town of Old Kaskaskia and the support it gave to George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution .
Fountain Creek Bridge is a limestone arch bridge which crosses Fountain Creek near Waterloo in Monroe County, Illinois, USA. The bridge was constructed in 1849 and served as a road bridge until the 1920s, when Illinois Route 156 opened on a new bridge. During the nineteenth century, stone arch bridges were commonly built in regions with stone ...
Born on a farm at Prairie du Long, near the present town of Waterloo, Illinois, Morrison attended McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois. He served in the war with Mexico before travelling to California with the gold seekers in 1849, but returned to Illinois in 1851. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1855, and practiced in Waterloo ...