Explore Edgar County
Vance Park
Opposite the art center and adjcent to City Hall, Vance Park is an extensively landscaped sunken garden featuring a serpentine brick wall from Thomas Jefferson's design at Charlottesville and lions'
Paris, IL GardensPumpkin Works
9 mazes, bon fires, hayrack rides, artisan gifts, 50 varities of pumpkins, gourds, indian corn. 7 Mazes (adult challenging) 5 mazes (wheelchair accessible)bonfires (appointment only) school tours available (appointment only) please no pets!
Paris, IL MazesIndian Treaty Site
A marker commemorates where two important trails intersected on the prairie - Detroit to St Louis and Peoria to Terre Haute. In 1765
Paris, IL Historic SitesWall Mural
Artistic talent is showcased on a wall mural decorating a building on this quaint small town's square. The first mural at Illinois & Madison streeets was completed in the fall of 1998
Chrisman, IL ArtsEnglish Farm
As you drive by this farm, your eye is drawn upward to a towering brick structure near the modern brick home. The building, erected around 1913
Paris, IL Historic BuildingsEdgar County Courthouse
This elegant 1893 brick and stone building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Paris, IL Historic CourthousesHeartland Antique Auto Museum
Walk among early cars from the turn-of-the-century through the early 1950's. This museum is also the site of a restoration shop for classic V12 and V16
Paris, IL MuseumsGrave Of Sarah Hanks Varnell
Abraham Lincoln's aunt was buried in Ogden County cemetary in 1876
Paris, IL Cemeteries