Griggsville Historic District - Griggsville, IL
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N 39° 42.497 W 090° 43.551
15S E 694953 N 4397852
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Waymark Code: WMVE4T
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 04/07/2017
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County of district: Pike County Location of district: Irregular pattern along Corey, Stanford, Quincy and Liberty Sts. , Griggsville Contributing sites: 81
"Griggsville is located between the Mississippi River and the Illinois River and the hot muggy summers are the perfect habitat for mosquitoes. Amid growing concern over the use of pesticides to control mosquitoes, the town came up with an alternate abatement method. J.L. Wade, a Griggsville resident and owner of a local antenna manufacturing factory realized that Griggsville was right in the migration path of the Purple Martin, the largest bird in the swallow family, supposedly able to eat 2,000 mosquitoes in a single day. J.L. Wade quickly realized that to get the purple martins to stay, he simply needed to give them a reason to stay, so he converted his antenna factory into a bird house building factory. The mosquito population dwindled, which lead the town to adopt the nickname "The Purple Martin Capital of the Nation", as well as labeling the Purple Martin "America's Most Wanted Bird." Additionally, Wade's Purple Martin business, formerly Trio Manufacturing, published a newsletter called The Nature Society News. The purple martin factory has been recently been sold to a Chicago businessman. Griggsville has installed over 5,000 birdhouses along the city streets, including a 562-apartment high rise, reaching a height of 70 ft." ~ World Heritage Encyclopedia
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Street address: Irregular pattern along Corey, Stanford, Quincy and Liberty Sts. , Griggsville, IL 62340
County / Borough / Parish: Pike County
Year listed: 1979
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architectural/Engineering
Periods of significance: 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849
Historic function: Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Industry/Processing/Extraction, Religion
Current function: Commerce / Trade - Domestic / Religion
Privately owned?: yes
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 2: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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