Funks Grove 200th Celebration at Funk Prairie Home Museum

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Join the Funk Prairie Home and Gem and Mineral Museum as we commemorate the 200th anniversary of the settling of Funks Grove in 1824.

Get a taste of the Funk family’s remarkable history by taking an abbreviated tour of the Civil War-era Victorian farm house of LaFayette Funk, the son of Isaac Funk, one of the original settlers. The home was built on a section of his father Isaac’s original 25,000-acre estate.

Tour the antique horse-drawn farm implement room and learn about the Funk family’s significant agricultural achievements and farming before the invention of tractors!
The main hall of the Gem & Mineral Museum will be open for viewing. The museum showcases the extensive collection of LaFayette Funk II, amassed from all over the world.

Helping us to celebrate this milestone:

• McLean County History Museum will be bringing their trivia wheel;
  play for a chance to win seeds native to Illinois.

• Activities for kids by the Master Gardeners of
  McLean County

• Quilting demonstration by Motif Handmade

• Live traditional music by local Fiddlers

• Barn Keepers of Central Illinois will be answering questions in our
  restored wood-peg barn, believed to be the oldest and best
  preserved in McLean County!

• Rockhound groups, Lincoln Orbit Earth Science Society and
  Peoria Academy of Science Geology Section

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