Customs House

Illinois

1400 Washington Avenue
Cairo, IL 62914
United States

Website

https://www.niu.edu/university-libraries/index.shtml

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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