Customs House

Illinois

1400 Washington Avenue
Cairo, IL 62914, USA

This local history museum offers exhibits on Cairo's pivotal role in the Civil War. These include artifacts from the USS Cairo, a gunboat built in the local shipyards, which was sunk by a Confederate torpedo in 1862 and raised in 1964.

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