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Old Market House State Historic Site

Galena, IL

A preserved 1845 market building now interprets Galena's boom years, including mining, river commerce, and Ulysses S. Grant-era history.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: dnrhistoric.illinois.gov/experience/sites/northwest/old-market-house.html

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