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National Register of Historic Places listings in Alexander County, Illinois

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ1838997 ↗
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Alexander County, Illinois.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alexander County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.

There are 8 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.

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This entry incorporates text from “National Register of Historic Places listings in Alexander County, Illinois” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.