Open Household At Jubilee College Historic Site This Weekend

The Friends of Jubilee College Historic Site are hosting an Open House on Saturday, August 18th kickoff at 9:00 am.  I encourage readers to reckon this chance for learning to a greater extent than almost the founding of an early on Illinois college. 

The Jubilee College Historic Site is located following to Jubilee College State Park a few miles northwest of Peoria, IL.  The Friends of Jubilee College Historic Site deserve appreciation for their efforts to hold the site at a fourth dimension when dry soil funding has largely disappeared.  You tin equally good watch as well as similar their Facebook page to larn to a greater extent than almost grouping activities

Philander Chase, who previously founded Kenyon College inwards Ohio, equally good founded Jubilee College during his service equally the initiatory of all Episcopal Bishop of Illinois.  Construction on the college began inwards 1839 as well as expanded to include a dozen or to a greater extent than structures on a 3,500-acre tract of land. The establishment included a theological seminary, a college, a classical preparatory schoolhouse for boys, as well as a “seminary” for girls, equally good equally modest farming operations.  The college struggled equally a frontier establishment as well as no longer offered classes afterwards 1862.