Marker Text:
PUBLIC PRINTER
This is the site of a two-story frame building occupied by Robert Blackwell, state printer 1818-1832, and publisher of the laws of the United States. In 1823 he became publisher of the Illinois Intelligencer newspaper. The first periodical in Illinois. The Illinois Monthly Magazine, was printed here in 1826. Colonel Blackwell (1792-1866) was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1832-1836 and Senate 1838-1840.
This marker, as all of the ones in Vandalia, is mounted in the side walk, butted up against the building. You have to look down and pay attention, not easy to see.
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