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2010-2011
Visitor and Relocation Information for Bureau County, Illinois
  • About Bureau County
  • Towns & Villages
  • Festivals & Events
  • Attractions
  • Recreation
  • Businesses, Churches & Organizations

Attractions

Buda
  • Tiskilwa Farms
Cherry
  • Cherry Mine Disaster Holy Trinity Miners Memorial
Ladd
  • Soldier Sculpture Restoration
LaMoille
  • Allen Junior High School
  • Civil War Cannon
  • Dr. John Kendall Home
Manlius
  • The First State Bank Building
Mineral
  • McCune Sand Prairie
  • Mineral Pride Historical Society Museum
  • The Witness Tree
Neponset
  • Neponset Township Historical Society Museum
Princeton
  • Bart Kassabaum Artist's Gallery
  • Bureau County Farm Tours
  • Bureau County Genealogical Society
  • Bureau County Historical Society Museum
  • Bureau Creek Orchard
  • Captain Swift Covered Bridge
  • Good Scents, Ltd.
  • Hornbaker Gardens
  • Matson Public Library
  • Owen Lovejoy Homestead
  • Reagan Trail
  • Red Covered Bridge
  • Self-Guided Architectural Tour
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument
  • Walnut Prairie Farm
Sheffield
  • Hennepin Canal Parkway Museum & Visitors Center
  • Sheffield Historical Society Museum
  • St. Peter’s Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church
Spring Valley
  • Barto Landing
  • Coal Mine Park
  • Edward Hall Grave Site
Tiskilwa
  • Tiskilwa Historical Society Museum
Walnut
  • Avanti Foods
  • Don Marquis Memorial
Wyanet
  • Civil War Cannon
  • Hennepin Canal Locks 17, 19, 21
  • Henry Thomas Museum
  • Wyanet Historical Society Museum

Red Covered Bridge

Princeton

Go 1-1/2 miles north of Princeton on Route 26 to see one of five remaining covered bridges in Illinois, this bridge was built in 1863 and is still open to traffic. It crosses Big Bureau Creek and was once part of the Peoria-Galena Trail. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Drive-through.

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Red Covered Bridge, Princeton, Illinois

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