Harry "Babe" Woodyard State Natural Area
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Harry "Babe" Woodyard State Natural Area
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Harry "Babe" Woodyard State Natural Area is a protected Illinois state park of 1,104 acres in Vermilion County, east of Georgetown. Part of its land was formerly Camp Cherokee Hills, the summer camp of the Piankeshaw Council of the Boy Scouts of America. After the Piankeshaw and Prairielands councils merged in 1992, that property was sold to the State of Illinois in 1996 and incorporated into the natural area. The park takes its name from Harry "Babe" Woodyard, a Ridge Farm farmer who represented the region in the Illinois House and Senate from 1979 to 1996, linking the landscape to a local public figure during its expansion.
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