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Charles Duryea, a pioneering automaker, was born on December 15, 1861, in Canton, Illinois. Alongside his brother Frank, he designed and constructed some of the earliest gasoline-powered automobiles in the United States. In the 1890s, Charles Duryea built several of these innovative vehicles in Peoria and nearby Peoria Heights. Notably, in 1895, a Duryea car…

Redcrest, the U.G. Orendorff House is located in the Town of Canton…Canton established itself early as an industrial producer because of its abundant supply of coal along with its accessibility to the river and Chicago-based rail transport…U.G Orendorff was a wealthy businessman and philanthropist born in Canton in 1865. His father, William, was a founding…