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Elgin Park was a perpetual miniature imaginary village created by artist and photographer Michael Paul Smith in 2008. It was a 1:24-scale recreation of everyday scenes from mid-20th-century America, ranging from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, based loosely on Sewickley, Pennsylvania, where Smith lived for the first seventeen years of his life. [1]
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The Port Elgin and North Shore Railroad was a 16 in (406 mm) miniature [2] heritage railway in Port Elgin, Ontario. [3]The history of the Port Elgin and North Shore Railroad dates back to the early 1970s when a local tool and die maker endeavored to establish a park train tourist attraction in Port Elgin's North Shore Park.
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
A miniature park is a display of miniature buildings and models, usually as a recreational and tourist attraction open to the public. A miniature park may contain a model of a single city or town, often called a miniature city or model village , or it can contain a number of different sets of models.
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The Elgin Area Historical Society is a non-profit organization that preserves and presents the history of the Elgin, Illinois area. Located at 360 Park Street in Elgin, Illinois on the Elgin Academy campus. The historic "Old Main" building houses offices, research facilities, the Elgin History Museum, and a gift shop.
Reeves, a native of New York, also designed Old Main at the Elgin Academy. Gifford died in 1850, the same year the house was completed. [2] The Gifford–Davidson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1980. On May 3, 1983, it became a contributing property to the Elgin Historic District. [2]