Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/6
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- ...that the Old Sycamore Hospital (pictured), founded in 1899, was designed and funded by the first female doctor in Sycamore, Illinois?
- ...that "Antietam" is misspelled on the facade of the Civil War Memorial in DeKalb County, Illinois?
- ...that the Potawatomi tribe believed that the natural pond in the backyard of the Chauncey Ellwood House in Sycamore, Illinois was once a watering hole for native buffalo?
- ...that the 1916 Lorado Taft work, The Soldiers' Monument, constructed for $21,000, is now worth over $1,000,000?
- ...that the George's Block in Sycamore, Illinois once hosted talks from the likes of Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and Charles Sumner?