Blackwell's White House
County: Fayette
Location: US 40 & 51, 3rd & Gallatin Sts.
Vandalia
Erected: 01/01/1954 Erected by:
The Illinois State Historical Society
Colonel Robert Blackwell's new two-story frame store and
boardinghouse opened on this site in time for the convening of the
Ninth General Assembly on December 1, 1834. He advertised board and
lodging for 'thirty or forty.'
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