County: St. Clair
Location: North side of US 50, 2.2 miles
east of O'Fallon (missing)
Erected: 04/07/1965 Erected by: The Illinois State Historical Society
On this site, from 1822 until his death in 1858, lived John Mason Peck, a pioneer baptist preacher, author and educator. Here, in 1827, he founded Rock Spring Seminary. In 1831 the seminary was removed to Alton, where it later became Shurtleff College.
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