Scripps Park - Rushville, IL
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YoSam.
N 40° 07.031 W 090° 34.715
15T E 706348 N 4443574
Park and golf course, land donated by the newspaper tycoon who use to live here.
Waymark Code: WMK6VC
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 02/21/2014
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County of park: Schuyler County
Location of park: US 24, just W. of Rushville
Park phone: (217) 322-3028
The main building at Scripps Park houses a kitchen and large meeting rooms.
Illinois State Historic Soiciety marker on site (next to main bldg.):
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Marker Ereected by:The Scripps Park Bicentennial Landscaping Committee and the Illinois State Historical Society
Marker Text:
This site was the homestead of the Scripps family -- pioneer journalists and philanthropists. John Scripps (1785-1868), a Methodist circuit-rider, settled here in 1831. In 1849 he began publishing the Prairie Telegraph, now the Rushville Times. His nephew, John Locke Scripps (1818-1868), co-founded the Chicago Tribune and wrote the first biography of Abraham Lincoln. A great-nephew, Edward Wyllis Scripps (1854-1926), founded United Press and the first newspaper chain in the United States -- Scripps Howard. An older brother, James E. Scripps (1835-1906), founded the Detroit Evening News; and their sister, Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932), pioneered the concept of the feature article in journalism.