On Main Street near 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
[East Face]
In Memory of All
Who Followed the Flag From
1861 to 1865
Living and Dead.
Erected 1903
SHILOH
[South Face]
This monument is erected
by the Grand Army of the Republic
Women's Relief Corps, Sons of . . . — — Map (db m34161) HM
On 3rd Street (Illinois Route 127), on the right when traveling north.
Lest We Forget
This memorial is dedicated
to the men and women of
Bond County who served in
the Armed Forces of the
United States of America
Dedicated Nov. 11, 1997
In memory of those from
Bond County who gave their lives . . . — — Map (db m34189) WM
On 2nd Street at College Avenue, on the left when traveling south on 2nd Street.
S.B. Bulkley's first business here was in a frame business house in 1833. In 1840, he tore it down and rebuilt in brick. His clerk, Alexander Buie, later became his partner and the store was enlarged. Buie also sold Bibles in his store. When Daniel . . . — — Map (db m34148) HM
On 2nd Street at College Avenue, on the right when traveling north on 2nd Street.
In 1870, W. S. Dann opened a small one room store at this location. Additions were built in 1880 and 1886. Mr. Dann was one of those most interested in the founding of Greenville College. F. P. Joy joined Dann within a few months of the store's . . . — — Map (db m34147) HM
The building cost $15,000 and took 5 months to complete. "For the first time in Greenville's 119 years of history in which great progress was made in every other direction, the city really had its own building in which to conduct its business. In . . . — — Map (db m34183) HM
On North 4th Street at West Main Street, on the right when traveling south on North 4th Street.
Imagine a world without books--a frontier where print is a luxury, often out of reach. It's the world you would have known in 1815, when George Davidson settled the bluff overlooking Little Shoal Creek, just a short walk from where you stand. . . . — — Map (db m144131) HM
Near Museum Avenue, 0.6 miles east of Illinois Route 127.
Hill's Fort, a War of 1812-era fort that stood on the western perimeter of the Territory of Illinois, was located six miles southwest of this spot. A reconstruction of the original fort is located here at the Farm Heritage Museum. On September 9, . . . — — Map (db m232486) HM
On 3rd Street (Illinois Route 127) at Main Street, on the right when traveling north on 3rd Street.
Illinois Confederacy Indians roamed this prairie land, rich in game, which became Illinois County of Virginia. Ceded in 1784 to the United States it was successively included in the Northwest, Indiana; and in 1809, Illinois Territory. Formed in . . . — — Map (db m34169) HM
On 3rd Street (Illinois Route 127) at College Avenue (Illinois Route 127), on the left when traveling north on 3rd Street.
The earliest records show Samuel Colcord's Sorghum Mill once stood here. In 1870 Charles R. Bennett opened his new drugstore. Four drugstores were operating on the square during this time. It was Kate Benneett, Charles' wife, who prevailed on her . . . — — Map (db m34176) HM
On College Avenue, on the right when traveling west. Reported missing.
In 1912, at age 24, John Posch came to the United States with a dime in his pocket and a bag of tools. In Austria, he had apprenticed for four years as a shoemaker and passed his test to work the trade. In Greenville, he started up his business in a . . . — — Map (db m144104) HM
On West Main Street just west of North 3rd Street (Illinois Route 127), on the right when traveling west.
Constructed as a two story house, this is thought to be the oldest building still standing in Greenville. It as built by Kendall Morse, younger brother of Stephen Morse, who co-founded Almira College. The brothers were some of the most prosperous . . . — — Map (db m144598) HM
On West Main Street at 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
Dedicated to the memory of Ronald Reagan, who spoke at this intersection on October 18, 1980, while campaigning for the United States Presidency. — — Map (db m34158) HM
On Main Street at 2nd Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.
This bank was established in August, 1869, by Charles Hoiles and Charles D. Hoiles. In December of 1895 the bank was incorporated as the State Bank of Hoiles & Sons with a capital of $25,000. In September, 1903, the capital stock was increased to . . . — — Map (db m34155) HM
Near Museum Avenue, 0.6 miles east of Illinois Route 127.
In honor of those brave pioneers who sought refuge & fought valiantly against the attacking Native Americans near Hill's Fort on the foggy morning of September 9, 1814. After being alerted to the hostile presence, 13 men left the fort to scout. They . . . — — Map (db m232492) HM
On South 3rd Street (Illinois Route 127) south of W S Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Greenville's third jail, built at a cost of $5,000, now houses an antique shop. The only recorded hanging in Bond County took place behind this building. Changes to the front of the building were made by John Pepin and his sons to convert it into a . . . — — Map (db m169986) HM
On Main Street at 3rd Street (Illinois Route 127), on the right when traveling west on Main Street.
This building used to be balanced by another more ornate one at the northern most part of the block. The old Post Office and the Cyclone Hose Company, Greenville's first Fire Station, were located in what was known as the Demoulin block before the . . . — — Map (db m34174) HM
On Franklin Street at South 2nd Street, on the right when traveling north on Franklin Street.
In December of 1868, the rails were laid to the Greenville Depot. One of the first locomotives on the Vandalia Line was named "Greenville". The original depot was improved, enlarged and destroyed by fire about 1910. The present structure was . . . — — Map (db m224459) HM
Near College Avenue at 3rd Street (Illinois Route 127), on the left when traveling west.
In memory of the
who are buried in
Bond County
Amos Balch • Ansel Birge
Welshier Buchanan • William Burgess
Allen Comer • John Etzler
Daniel Ferguson • John Floyd
Boling Grigg • Bonham Harlan
T. S. Hubbard • Joseph Hunter . . . — — Map (db m34127) HM
On 3rd Street at College Avenue, on the right when traveling north on 3rd Street.
On this northwest corner of the square, the former Hotel Eureka (better known as the Franklin House) once stood. It served as the old stage coach house and was "the best house in town, two stories high, with a double porch on the front, and withal . . . — — Map (db m34185) HM
On North 2nd Street just south of West Oak Street, on the right when traveling south.
Built in 1918, this site was headquarters for Wells Judd Tire Sales, a Goodyear Tire Dealer for over 50 years. Managed by Earl Wildermann, it served the local tire and battery trade, as well as customers traveling on the National Trail. Restored in . . . — — Map (db m144108) HM
On West Main Street (Illinois Route 140) just east of North Maple Street (Illinois Route 140), on the right when traveling east.
In the 1820s, not far from where you stand, passengers could board a stagecoach traveling west to Alton, Ill., or east to the Illinois Capitol at Vandalia.
According to local lore, if passengers at the town tavern were waiting for a coach, the . . . — — Map (db m144132) HM
On Jefferson Street at Shoal Creek Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Jefferson Street.
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) president and Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) founder John L. Lewis (1880-1969) came to Panama, Illinois, from Iowa with his family in 1908 to work in the mines; within one year he was president to . . . — — Map (db m186233) HM
On West Cemetery Road east of Calvin Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
(front:)
"The public does not understand, and I think never will. That almost spiritual fealty that exists between men who go down into the dangers of the mine and work together. That fealty of understanding and brotherhood that exists . . . — — Map (db m186238) HM
On State Street at Park Street, on the right when traveling east on State Street.
The village square may be quiet today, but from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s, the ring of hammers bending iron and shaping steel echoed down these streets.
Northwest of where you stand, blacksmiths shaped horseshoes, linked chains, . . . — — Map (db m144110) HM
On 2nd Street west of Washington Street, on the left when traveling west.
Where the Illinois Central Railroad saw land it didn't need, Henry Hedrick Smith saw opportunity.
In the mid 1800s, Smith, an ambitious outspoken entrepreneur, bought 800 acres of Bond County prairie from Illinois Central. When the St. Louis, . . . — — Map (db m169984) HM
On East Taylor Street (County Road 18) at South Main Street, on the left when traveling east on East Taylor Street.
This building was donated to the Village of Sorento December 10, 1995 by Kessinger Post 713 of the American Legion in honor of all veterans past and present who passed through these doors — — Map (db m226482) WM
