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Madison County, Illinois
There is a bottle of catsup in
the National Register of Historic Places. It is, in fact, The
World’s Largest Catsup Bottle, located just south of downtown
Collinsville in Madison County. The 170-foot
water tower was built in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell Company for the G.S.
Suppiger catsup bottling plant – bottlers of Brooks Rich & Tangy Catsup.
Madison County is proud of its catsup bottle landmark, a shining example
of 20th-century roadside Americana at its finest. Named for James Madison,
the fourth president of the United States, the county was formed before in
1812, before Illinois became a state. Madison was also a member of the
Continental Congress and the federal constitutional convention of 1787.
In addition to Collinsville, other major cities and towns in Madison
County include Glen Carbon, Granite City and Edwardsville, the county
seat. Other significant attractions abound throughout the county.
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The
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, also in Collinsville, holds the
remains of a subtribe of the Illini who lived in the region. The
2,200-acre site has been designated a World Heritage Site by the United
Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization for its
importance in understanding the cultural heritage of the native
civilizations in North America.
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Horseshoe Lake State Park, in Granite City, is a 2,960-acre park that
surrounds Oxbow Lake, and is a popular site for fishing, birding, boating,
camping and hiking.
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Leclaire Village, in Edwardsville, was developed in the late 1800s by
industrialist N.O. Nelson as a model company town. Today, it is a national
historic district.
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