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Civil War | Museum
Customs House
Illinois
1400 Washington Avenue
Cairo, IL 62914, USA
Website: www.lib.niu.edu
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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