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Madison County, Illinois
There is a
bottle of catsup in the National Register of Historic
Places. It is, in fact, The World’s
Largest Catsup Bottle, located just south of
downtown Collinsville in Madison County. The 170-foot
water tower was built in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell
Company for the G.S. Suppiger catsup bottling plant –
bottlers of Brooks Rich & Tangy Catsup.
Madison County is proud of its catsup bottle landmark, a
shining example of 20th-century roadside Americana at
its finest. Named for James Madison, the fourth
president of the United States, the county was formed
before in 1812, before Illinois became a state. Madison
was also a member of the Continental Congress and the
federal constitutional convention of 1787. In addition to Collinsville, other major cities and
towns in Madison County include Glen Carbon, Granite
City and Edwardsville, the county seat. Other
significant attractions abound throughout the county.
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The Cahokia
Mounds State Historic Site, also in
Collinsville, holds the remains of a subtribe of the
Illini who lived in the region. The 2,200-acre site
has been designated a World Heritage Site by the
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization for its importance in understanding the
cultural heritage of the native civilizations in
North America.
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Horseshoe
Lake State Park, in Granite City, is a
2,960-acre park that surrounds Oxbow Lake, and is a
popular site for fishing, birding, boating, camping
and hiking.
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Leclaire
Village, in Edwardsville, was developed
in the late 1800s by industrialist N.O. Nelson as a
model company town. Today, it is a national historic
district.
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