The US Customs House in Cario Illinois is a big museum in a little town. Our personal tour guide, Laurie, excitedly shared the history of Cario, the Customs House, and the exhibits on all three floors of this amazing museum. From Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery to General Grant's sorties into the Cofederate territory during the Cival War to the tensions of the 1960s Civil Rights (which unfortunately marked the beginning of the end of this fine town), Cario represented a microcosim of America values, ingenuity, and industry. Yet AS President Lincoln said "A house divided against itself cannot survive" Cario, divided and much abandoned, demonstrates the importance of severing disagreements before disagreements sever society. Plan to spend at least two hours in the museum, take a ride to Fort Definance, then imagine what Cario could have been if unity triumped...
   Read moreOnly looked here online. Website listed by Google is 'unclaimed'. Most of the photos added to Google under this place name are 100% irrelevant. When I clicked on the 'suggest an edit' link on Google, there needed to be an 'other' link in the dropdown list, along with a field in which I can add a reason that Google hasn't thought of. I know this isn't the Museum's fault (except for a failure to watch over content in it's name), but Google makes it nigh on impossible for people to say what they want to say when it doesn't fit in to the limited range of things they think people might want to say - and I can't think of anywhere else to get this message over to Google. For a company of it's caliber and reputation, it's a pretty poor situation. Update August 2020: The irrelevant photos have been deleted and the...
   Read moreThe custom house has a lot of things that derived from the struggle in Cairo Illlinois it's real history is in Cairo the walls downtown where where they build around Cairo and the real History need to be put on the walls would bring life and I sense of dignity for the struggle of the peoples of Cairo was a very racist town during the sixers...
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