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Tent City
Shawneetown, Illinois
Historical Marker Database · Thomas Smith
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After the devastating flood of 1937, families from Gallatin County lived in Tent City on a 15-acre strip of the Finney Austin farm one and a half miles east of Junction, where a tent colony was erected to house flood refugees.
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