Edgar County Historical Society

Victorian Arthur House

Visit the Arthur House, a Victorian home built in 1872 of red brick in the Italianate architectural style.

Historical Museum Annex

Browse through our museum annex constructed in 1988, a modern structure which enables us to expand our displays and focus on historical themes of a mid-western farming community.

Pioneer Log Cabin

Turn back time by stepping down the path to our log cabin. The Historical Society sponsored the reconstruction of this Edgar County log cabin, relocating it to our museum grounds in 1988. A stone well, log shed and old-fashioned garden are all a part of the cabin area.

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408-414 N. Main Street, Paris, Illinois 61944

Thursday 9am-4pm
Friday 9am-4pm

Signposts of History

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Through out the Midwest, Illinois and even Edgar County there are information markers along the wayside. They usually tell about the events that happened in history which are noteworthy enough to be recorded in some small way about what happened and when it happened. There was a famous treaty agreed…