Clayville Town Historic Site

Dedicated Volunteers & Artisans Bring History Back To Life

My wife & I visited the Clayville Site for their Fall Festival in mid-September. The historic buildings & displays made a very good backdrop for the demonstrations and for the handmade products for s...

A well spent afternoon

My wife and I visited Clayville on April 18, 2017. Having never been there, we didn't know what to expect. We were more than pleasantly surprised! Besides the old Broadwell Inn stagecoach stop, the...

Broadwell Tavern still stands

There are hundreds of ghost towns in Colorado, mostly remnants of the Gold Rush era. But there are ghost towns in Illinois, too. One noteworthy site is Old Shawneetown on the Ohio River near Metropoli...

Another "ghost town" in Illinois

After visiting Lincoln's New Salem near Petersburg, a community that was founded in 1829 and abandoned by 1840, we were intrigued by an opportunity to visit another nearby ghost town, Clayville, a for...