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Ratcliff Inn

CITY:

Carmi

COUNTY:

White

DEDICATED BY:

White County Historical Society and The Illinois State Historical Society

DEDICATION DATE:

January 5, 1966 at 6:00:00 AM

The marker is located in Carmi, at 206 East Main Street.

This building was erected in 1828 by James Ratcliff. Nicknamed ‘Old Beaver’ because of his energy, he was a founder of Carmi (1816), an innkeeper, merchant, and postmaster, and White County’s first Clerk, Recorder, and Probate Judge. Abraham Lincoln lodged here in 1840. The inn was restored in 1960.

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