The discovery by archaeologists Floyd Mansberger and Christopher Stratton came about an hour after an excavator started digging on the south side of the McLean County Museum of History. It was the first day of a two- to three-week archaeological search before construction starts on a new entrance into a planned tourism center on the lower level of the history museum.
“They literally found where the courthouse was,” said Greg Koos, the museums’ executive director. “They found the corner and now can plot out the exact location. These are the physical remains of an incredibly historical episode in McLean County.”
Story: Mary Ann Ford, The Pantagraph | Photo: Public Domain
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