Maud Powell

Historical marker location:

1627 4th St, Peru, Illinois

( Marker is at the intersection of 4th Street (U.S. 6) and Putnam Street, on the right when traveling west on 4th Street.)

1867 - 1920.

Illinois is the birthplace of several famous people, including former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, and writer Ernest Hemingway.