Farm Creek Section

Farm Creek Section

Infobox_nrhp | name =Farm Creek Section
nrhp_type =nhl


caption =
nearest_city= East Peoria, Illinois
locmapin = Illinois
area =
architect=
architecture=
designated= December 09, 1997cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2079699782&ResourceType=Site
title=Farm Creek Section |accessdate=2007-10-08|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = February 06, 1992cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
refnum=91002039

Farm Creek Section is a hillside in East Peoria, Illinois that clearly showed geological strata. It was noticed and described by geologist Frank Leverett.... It is nationally significant for its ...

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/91002039.pdf National Historic Landmark Nomination: Farm Creek Section / Farm Creek/Farmdale Geologic Exposure] |187 KB|date=August 20, 1991 |author=Joanne Kluessendorf and Kira Badamo |publisher=National Park Service. PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/91002039.pdf Accompanying 3 photos, from c.1898 and 1991.] |1.35 MB]

It is located south of downtown East Peoria on Illinois Route 8 between School Street and Bittersweet Road.

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