Patton Cabin

Keller Park, (Cherry at Harrison Sts), Lexington, IL
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This cabin was built in 1829 by John Patton and his family and friends including some Kickapoo and Delaware Indians who lived in the area. Its original location was about 3.5 miles SW of Lexington. In 1831 it was the polling place for the Mackinsaw Precinct.

The cabin as it stands now is missing the 1832 addition of a windowless room the family called Fort Patton. That room was built in response to the Black Hawk Indian War.

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds donated the cabin to the McLean County Historical Society in 1963. Two years later it was dismantled in 1965 and rebuilt in the Lexington Park District in 1969. It was then restored in 1984-85.

The cabin is on the National Register of Historic Places.

GPS: 40.648129, -88.780195

Photo(s): 2015