On this site lived Robert K. McLaughlin, State Treasurer 1820-1823, State Senator 1828-1832, 1836-1837, and Register of the United States Land Office 1837-1845. Here the Governors of Illinois resided when the Legislature was in session. The McLaughlin home was the social center during the time that the capital was in Vandalia.

Marker is on Main Street near Kennedy Boulevard (U.S. 51), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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