Golden (Illinois)

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Golden
Golden (Illinois)
Golden
Golden
Location in Illinois
Basic data
State : United States
State : Illinois
County : Adams County
Coordinates : 40 ° 7 ′  N , 91 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 7 ′  N , 91 ° 1 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 644 (as of 2010)
Population density : 322 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 2.0 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of
which 2.0 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land
Postal code : 62339
Area code : +1 217

Golden is a village ( Village ) in Adams County in the west of the US -amerikanischen state of Illinois .

Attractions include the local Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Chapel and Cemetery and the Galerieholländer - Windmill built in 1872 by Hinrich Reemts Emminga . A few years earlier he had built an almost identical windmill in the East Frisian field .

Individual evidence

  1. Golden Historical Society: The Prairie Mills Windmill , accessed April 23, 2018.
  2. ^ Website of the Lower Saxony Mühlenstrasse , accessed on April 23, 2018.