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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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