Spoon River
The Spoon River is a 147-mile-long tributary of the Illinois River in west-central Illinois in the United States. The river drains largely agricultural prairie country between Peoria and Galesburg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Rockwell Mound and Havana Water Tower.
Rockwell Mound
Archaeological site
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Rockwell Mound has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1987. The mound is located in Rockwell Park, on North Orange Street in the Illinois River city of Havana in Mason County.
Havana Water Tower
Water tower
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The Havana Water Tower is a historic water tower which stands in Havana, Illinois. Built in 1889 and designed by St. Louis architect F. William Raider, it holds 50,000 gallons and was the town's only water supply until 1962.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Havana.
Havana
Town
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Havana is a city and the county seat of Mason County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,963 at the 2020 census, a decline from the figure of 3,301 tabulated in 2010.
Spoon River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Illinois, United States
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Fulton, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Spoon River” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Spoon”
- Cebuano: “Spoon River”
- Dutch: “Spoon River”
- Hebrew: “ספון”
- Irish: “Abhainn Spoon”
- Italian: “Spoon River”
- Italian: “Spoon”
- Japanese: “スプーン川”
- Mingrelian: “სპუნი”
- Venetian: “Spoon”
- Welsh: “Afon Spoon”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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