Flora, Illinois Location of Flora inside Illinois Location of Flora inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Flora, Illinois Website: City of Flora, Illinois Flora is a town/city in Clay County, Illinois, United States.
4 The Flora B&O Depot Flora was established by Samuel White.
Sarah died December 13, 1859 in Flora, and is buried in the family plot in Elmwood Cemetery.
The initial town of Flora was laid out, surveyed and platted in February 1854 by Ethelred Nixon, County Surveyor; John Brown, Trustee for Songer, Camp & Company; and Samuel White.
Samuel White also donated territory to the City of Flora for a several buildings and the town/city park.
The City Park, at that time called the Public Square, is present day Library Park where Flora Public Library is located.
Land was also donated for streets and alleys of the initial town of Flora.
The city's founder died November 15, 1912 in Sterling, Colorado and was returned to Flora for burial in the family plot at Elmwood.
From "Flora, Illinois - Founded 1854" compiled by Flora Resident, Jeanie Briscoe.
The book also contains historic knowledge about the B & O barns , the history of various buildings, and obituaries of some of Flora's early people.
Flora is positioned at 38 40.2 N 88 28.5 W (38.6698, -88.4841). According to the 2010 census, Flora has a total region of 4.733 square miles (12.26 km2), of which 4.73 square miles (12.25 km2) (or 99.94%) is territory and 0.003 square miles (0.01 km2) (or 0.06%) is water. Flora's chief industry is agriculture, although there are companies positioned in Flora that employ a several hundreds.
Main article: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot (Flora, Illinois) Former Baltimore & Ohio barns depot in Flora, Illinois The Flora B&O Depot was assembled in 1872 with generous help from small-town citizens.
It served the City of Flora until 1916, when it was finished by fire.
In the 1920s, the barns working half the wage earners in Flora.
The depot became less meaningful to the improve and the days of hosting 12 passenger trains, daily passing through Flora, became a fond memory.
In 1998, the Flora B&O Depot was titled one of three sites in Clay County on the National Register of Historic Places.
With this recognition and the interest of many people of the community, the Flora Community Development Corporation (FCDC) purchased the depot from CSX Railroad.
The first floor homes the Flora Chamber of Commerce office, a exhibition including town/city and county historical artifacts and two unfinished room available for occupancy.
In 1987 a group of Flora officials formed the so-called "Barbed Wire Choir" and recorded a music video in an attempt to territory a state prison.
Jimmy Connors played his first ever tennis tournament in Flora, aged seven "City of Flora, Illinois".
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City of Flora tourism videos- https://elocallink.tv/vp2/vp6_brain.php?loc=/vp2/vp3_show.php&qstring=cid%3 - D424 Municipalities and communities of Clay County, Illinois, United States
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