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.
