Trips & Tours - Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois

Mermaid House Hotel (Mermaid Inn)
114 E. St. Louis Street, Lebanon, Illinois 62254
618-537-4498
Hours: Call for an appointment.
Built in 1830, this building is the oldest in the community. Historic guests include Charles Dickens.
Peterstown House
407 Washington Drive, Waterloo, Illinois 62298
618-939-7810
The Peterstown House is a 150-year-old building refurbished and restored as a museum. It was a stage coach
stop on the Kaskaskia Trail. Peterstown was the name given to the northern portion of the town.
The Piasa Bird
on the bluffs of Alton, Illinois 62002
1 mile north of the Alton Visitors Center on the Great River Road
A modern recreation of the original Piasa Bird, a petroglyph (a prehistoric carving gouged into a rock surface).
According to legend, before the Europeans arrived in the Riverbend area, the Piasa (pronounced Pie-a-saw)
was a bird-like creature that terrorized local Native American tribes. Father Jacques Marquette recorded his
fearful impression of the rock paintings in his journal.
Robert P. Wadlow Gravesite
Upper Alton Cemetery, 1205 E. 5th Street, Alton, Illinois 62002
Burial place of Alton native Robert Wadlow , the World’s Tallest Man. He was born in Alton on February 22,
1918, a completely normal baby, 8 ½ pounds. At the time of his death in 1940, he was 8 feet and 11.1 inches
tall and weighed 439 pounds making him the world’s tallest person in history, according to the Guinness Book
of Records.
Sears House
219 W Spring Street, Marissa, Illinois 62257
618-295-3664
Turn of the century Victorian house that was ordered through the Sears-Roebuck catalogue and assembled for
only several hundred dollars.
The St. Clair County Historical Society Museum Home
701 East Washington Street, Belleville, Illinois 62220
618- 234-0600
www.stcchs.org/
Hours: Weekdays 10 am-2 pm; Closed Saturdays, Sundays and major holidays.
Built in 1866, this home features many products of the City of Belleville. The children’s room with displays of
toys, dolls, & children’s furniture is of special interest. Rotating displays of clothing and miscellaneous items
are in an upstairs exhibit room. Tours are available upon reservation.
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