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Location of Coles County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Coles County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Coles County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
The district includes the campuses of two prominent Jacksonville educational institutions: Illinois College and the Illinois School for the Deaf. Illinois College, the first college in Illinois to grant a degree, was founded in 1829; its first building, Beecher Hall , is the oldest building in the district.
Coles County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Charleston, Illinois. The courthouse is located in a public square in central Charleston and houses most of Coles County, Illinois 's administrative offices as well as its courts.
Coles County was organized by on December 25, 1830, from Clark and Edgar counties. It was named after Edward Coles, [3] the second governor of Illinois, from 1822 to 1826. The majority of the American settlers who founded Coles County were either from the six New England states, or were born in upstate New York to parents who had moved to that region from New England shortly after the American ...
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Coles County, Illinois" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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As of the 2020 census [1] there were 763 people, 319 households, and 216 families residing in the township. The population density was 13.94 inhabitants per square mile (5.38/km 2).
The district encompasses a commercial area surrounding Central Park, the city's public square. Development in the district began in 1825, when Jacksonville was platted and the public square was created; the first buildings on the square were built the same year. Most of the buildings in the district were built between the 1840s and 1940s, and a ...