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Anita Purves Nature Center - Altamont, Illinois
Anita Purves Nature Center - Altamont, Illinois
Visit this environmental education facility which is open and free to the public.
Visit this environmental education facility which is open and free to the public.
This is an ideal location for teachers to bring their class to study the environment. A traveling naturalist will come and speak to the class and discuss the varied issues related to the environment with them.
Spurlock Museum - Champaign, Illinois
Spurlock Museum - Champaign, Illinois shares the museum’s permanent galleries, highlighting the Ancient Mediterranean, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, celebrate the diversity of cultures through time and across the globe.
Anita Purves Nature Center - Urbana, Illionois
Anita Purves Nature Center - Urbana, Illionois offers a wide variety of programs for youth and adults alike.
The Anita Purves Nature Center is home to several wild animals that cannot be released into the wild. They are part of the exhibits in the center’s Field Station and help teach thousands of visitors each year about Illinois natural history and ecology.
Sargent Farm - Lena, Illinois
This farmstead is also on the Lincoln Log Cabin Historic Site. The Sargent farm is worth the tour.
In 1840, the same year that Thomas Lincoln bought the Goosenest Prairie farm, Stephen Sargent sold his dry goods store in nearby New Richmond and purchased a farm about ten miles east of the Lincolns. Three years later Sargent, with his wife Nancy Chenoweth Harlan, began constructing a spacious timberframe house. Sargent, by all appearances, enjoyed considerable success as a farmer.
Moore Home - Lena, Illinois
Situated on the same site as the Lincoln Log Home is the Moore Home in Lena, Illinois. This house was the home of Lincoln’s step sister and her husband, Reuben Moore.
Reuben Moore came to Illinois, with his family, after they left Butler County, Ohio in 1839.
Lincoln Log Cabin - Lerna, Illinois
Lincoln Log Cabin in Lerna, Illinois is an 86-acre historic site that is owned and operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Division of Historic Sites. The site includes an accurate reproduction of the Lincolns’ two-room cabin that was constructed on the original cabin site in 1935 as a CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) project.
