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Article: HORTICULTURE STUDENTS DESIGN LANDSCAPE FOR JANE ADDAMS HOME
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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MALTA, Ill., Oct. 18 -- Kishwaukee College issued the following news release:
The Kishwaukee College Horticulture Department has received a special request: design the landscaping around the Jane Addams Homestead in Cedarville, located near Freeport. Students in Jim Knoll's HORT 166 Beginning Landscape Design class visited the homestead on September 8 to begin the design process.
The home is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as the home of the John H. Addams family. Jane Addams, founder of Hull House and first American woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was born in the home on September 6, 1860. Her father John was a prominent businessman in Stephenson County, ...