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The custom house that still has the bullet holes
Washington Avenue, Cairo, Illinois
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A federal custom house, post office and courthouse finished in 1872, when Cairo still expected to be a great river city. It is a museum now, and the holes in its stonework are from 1969, a year in which sniper fire was reported in Cairo on a hundred and seventy separate nights. The building kept them. Almost nothing else in town from that period is still standing to keep anything.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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