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Evansville, Illinois

Evansville is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. The population was 701 at the 2010 census.

Located at 38.0897, -89.9339 (Lat. / Lng.), about 10 miles away.
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Populated places in Randolph County, Illinois, Villages in Illinois, Populated places established in 1885

Ellis Grove, Illinois

Ellis Grove is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. The population was 363 at the 2010 census.

Located at 38.0103, -89.9081 (Lat. / Lng.), about 8 miles away.
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Villages in Illinois, Populated places in Randolph County, Illinois

Kaskaskia, Illinois

Kaskaskia is an historically important village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. In the 2010 census the population was 14, making it the second-smallest incorporated community in the State of Illinois in terms of population. As a major French colonial town of the Illinois Country, in the 18th century its peak population was about 7,000, when it was a regional center.

Located at 37.9214, -89.9165 (Lat. / Lng.), about 8 miles away.
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Prairie du Rocher, Illinois

Prairie du Rocher ("Rock Prairie" in French) is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. Founded in the French colonial period in the American Midwest, the community is located near bluffs that flank the east side of the Mississippi River along the floodplain often called the "American Bottom". The population was 604 at the 2010 census. Prairie du Rocher is one of the oldest communities founded as a French settlement that survives in the 21st century.

Located at 38.0817, -90.0961 (Lat. / Lng.), about 8 miles away.
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French-American culture in Illinois, Populated places in Randolph County, Illinois, Villages in Illinois, New France, Populated places established in 1722

Ruma, Illinois

Ruma is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. The population was 317 at the 2010 census.

Located at 38.1336, -89.9986 (Lat. / Lng.), about 11 miles away.
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Populated places in Randolph County, Illinois, Villages in Illinois

St. Mary, Missouri

St. Mary (Ste. Marie, with French spelling) is a city in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States. The population was 360 at the 2010 census.

Located at 37.8761, -89.9489 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9 miles away.
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Cities in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri

Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Ste. Genevieve (Ste-Geneviève with French spelling) is a city in and the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,410 at the 2010 census. Founded by French Canadian colonists, it was the first organized European settlement west of the Mississippi River in present-day Missouri.

Located at 37.9769, -90.0486 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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French-American culture in Missouri, French-Canadian Culture in the United States, Missouri populated places on the Mississippi River, Cities in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, County seats in Missouri, Populated places established in 1735

Kaskaskia River

The Kaskaskia River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 325 miles long, in central and southern Illinois in the United States. The second largest river system within Illinois, it drains a rural area of farms, as well as rolling hills along river bottoms of hardwood forests in its lower reaches. The lower reaches of the river have been canalized to allow barge traffic.

Located at 37.9714, -89.9481 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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New Offenburg, Missouri

New Offenburg is an unincorporated community in Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri. It is located about ten miles southwest of Ste. Genevieve on Route 32. There is a German city called Offenburg between the Black Forest and the River Rhine.

Located at 37.9086, -90.1972 (Lat. / Lng.), about 10 miles away.
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Unincorporated communities in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri

River aux Vases, Missouri

River aux Vases is an unincorporated community in Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri. It is located about ten miles southwest of Sainte Genevieve. Aux vases is French for "swamps" or "morasses".

Located at 37.8722, -90.1128 (Lat. / Lng.), about 8 miles away.
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Unincorporated communities in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri

Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site

Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site is a 200-acre (0.8 km²) park near Chester, Illinois, on a blufftop overlooking the Mississippi River. It commemorates the vanished frontier town of Old Kaskaskia and the support it gave to George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution.

Located at 37.9688, -89.9106 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7 miles away.
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1759 establishments, American Revolutionary War sites, Pre-statehood history of Illinois, Illinois State Historic Sites, Protected areas of Randolph County, Illinois

Valle Catholic High School

Valle Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis.

Located at 37.98, -90.0478 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Roman Catholic secondary schools in Missouri, Schools in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Educational institutions established in 1925

Modoc, Illinois

Modoc is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois, United States, located 4 miles southeast of Prairie du Rocher under the bluffs of the Mississippi River. The Modoc Rock Shelter, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, is located near Modoc and the Ste. Genevieve-Modoc Ferry across the Mississippi River connects Modoc and the surrounding communities with Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. The area's population was 221 at the 2000 census.

Located at 38.0525, -90.0372 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Populated places in Randolph County, Illinois, Unincorporated communities in Illinois

Modoc Rock Shelter

Modoc Rock Shelter is a rock cliff at the edge of the Mississippi River Valley that was undercut by Ice Age floods. This site is significant for its archaeological evidence of the Archaic period in the Eastern United States. The site has over 28 feet of sediment that contain artifacts.

Located at 38.0628, -90.0636 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Archaic period in North America, Native American archeology, Archaeological sites in Illinois, National Historic Landmarks in Illinois, National Register of Historic Places in Randolph County, Illinois, Geography of Randolph County, Illinois

Pierre Menard House

The Pierre Menard House, located in Ellis Grove, Illinois, U.S.A. , was the home of Pierre Menard, a trader who became the first lieutenant governor of Illinois from 1818 to 1822. Menard was born near Montreal, Canada on October 7, 1766. The third of ten children, Menard sought to make his fortune by trading furs in what was then "Illinois Country". Having become a successful businessman by the age of thirty, Menard went on to become a successful U.S.

Located at 37.9647, -89.9099 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7 miles away.
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National Historic Landmarks in Illinois, Illinois State Historic Sites, Historic house museums in Illinois, Museums in Randolph County, Illinois, Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois, National Register of Historic Places in Randolph County, Illinois, French Colonial architecture, Colonial architecture in Illinois

Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial

The Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial is a 1948 brick building in Kaskaskia, Illinois that houses a bell cast in 1741 by King Louis XV of France as a gift to the Mission of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Kaskaskia. Known as the "Liberty Bell of the West", the bell was rung by villagers to celebrate their July 4, 1778 liberation from the British by forces of American Colonel George Rogers Clark. The Memorial also contains murals depicting Colonial scenes of Kaskaskia.

Located at 37.9216, -89.9147 (Lat. / Lng.), about 8 miles away.
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1741 works, Buildings and structures completed in 1948, Bell towers in the United States, Illinois State Historic Sites, Monuments and memorials in Illinois, Buildings and structures in Randolph County, Illinois, Visitor attractions in Randolph County, Illinois

King's Ball

The King's Ball - La fête des rois (or Festival of the Kings - Twelfth-Night) Watercolor over pencil National Archives of Canada, Ottawa (Accession No. 1989-472-1)]] The 250-year-old tradition of the King’s Ball was brought to the New World by Catholic émigrés, who measured the passing of time in two ways – by agricultural cycles, and the Church’s religious calendar. Lent, the weeks preceding Easter, had special importance for them as a period of repentance and atonement.

Located at 37.977, -90.0487 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Chester Non-High School District 122

Chester Non-High School District 112 is the only remaining non-high school district in Illinois; the district provides for the tuition and transportation of local eighth-grade school graduates to nearby high schools. The district is the western corner of Randolph County, containing the village of Prairie du Rocher, and is coextensive with Prairie du Rocher Community Consolidated School District 134.

Located at 38.0667, -90.1167 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7 miles away.
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Education in Randolph County, Illinois, School districts in Illinois

Amoureux House

The Amoureux House, sometimes called the Beauvais-Amoureux House, is in Ste. Geneviève, Missouri. It was built in 1792 by Jean-Baptiste St. Gemme Beauvais II who moved from Kaskaskia, Illinois. In 1852, it was purchased by Benjamin C. Amoureux, who immigrated to the United States from France. It is currently operated as a museum by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. It is one of three surviving poteaux-en-terre buildings. The others are the Bequette-Ribault House and the Vital St.

Located at 37.974, -90.0408 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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French-American culture in Missouri, Museums in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Historic house museums in Missouri, Houses in Missouri, Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri, Louisiana Territory and Missouri Territory, New France