Civil War | Museum
Customs House
Illinois
1400 Washington Avenue
Cairo, IL 62914
United States
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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