Westfield College - Westfield, IL
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YoSam.
N 39° 27.116 W 087° 59.996
16S E 413966 N 4367406
Westfield was an oil boom town with this important college, later used as a high school.
Waymark Code: WM3605
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 02/16/2008
Views: 13
Marker Text: For more than fifty years Westfield College was located on this site. It was founded as a seminary in 1861 by the United Brethren in Christ and incorporated as a college in 1865. The school was coeducational from the beginning and in some years granted both bachelor's and master's degrees. Its peak enrollment, reached in 1909, was 160. It closed in June 1914. Three years later the old college building, then being used by Westfield Township High School was destroyed by fire.
Erected by the Clark County Historical Society and the Illinois State Historical Society, 1969.
County: Clark
Historical Society: Clark County Historical Society and the Illinois State Historical Society
Dedication Date: 1969
Location: Lincoln St. & S. Fulton St., Westfield
Website: Not listed
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