Monday, March 19, 2018

Old Shawneetown, Illinois





The Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site is a historic bank building is a Greek Revival structure build in 1839-1841 in Old Shawneetown, Illinois.

Old Shawneetown is on the banks of the Ohio River at the Illinois state line. As of the 2010 census, the village had a population of 193. Shawneetown served as an important United States government administrative center for the Northwest Territory. The village was devastated by the Ohio River flood of 1937. The village's population was moved several miles inland to New Shawneetown. 

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