Memorial Bandstand of Long Point

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2023 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Village Park bordered by Main, 4th, 3rd and Park Sts., Long Point, 61333
When was it listed? April 2023
Category. structure
Township. Long Point township
National Register reference number. 100008844 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

557 words

The chapter on Long Point Township in The History of Livingston County, Illinois : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c. .., published 1878 names Long Point. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The road at first refused to make a station of Ancona ; and, consequently, some of its best institutions were removed to this point, among which were Amos Bosserman and the Masonic Lodge. Bossermau was made agent of the road at this place, and still remains in the position. The Lodge, previously known as Ancona Lodge, was removed the year following the establishment of the town ; and in 1877, its name was changed to Long Point Lodge. This Lodge was organized in October, 1866. The first officers were : Abel Bradley, W. M.; 0. Chubbuck, S. W.; J. C. Mills, J. W.; J. B. Phillips, Treas.; A. J. Bosserman, Sec; E. L. Stratton and J. C. Fulton. Deacons; and I. D. Bullock, Tiler. The present officers are A. J. Bosserman, W. M.; S. D. Carson, S. W.; E. L. Stratton, J. W., A. M. Taggart, Sec; Wm. Miller, Treas.

Passage source: The History of Livingston County, Illinois : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c. .., published 1878.

The township of Long Point bore an honorable part in the struggle for the preservation of the Union. The promptness with which volunteers flocked to the standard of the country was not surpassed by that of any other community, and several of them sacrificed their lives in their eff'orts to protect it.

Passage source: The History of Livingston County, Illinois : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c. .., published 1878.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Long Point Township - 557 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Memorial Bandstand of Long Point in 2014, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 October 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	1400174

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Point, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 3 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Point	-	Softwood trees were snapped and hardwood tree limbs were blown down in a relatively confined area.
July 2024	Tornado (EFU)	Long Point	-	High resolution satellite imagery showed a tornado which began in La Salle County and crossed into Livingston County just south of Prairie Creek. The only damage was to crops, which became more sporadic and subtle along the path in Livingston County. The last instance of crop damage appeared to occur just west of N 200 East Road and south of E 2800 North Road. Since the only known damage from this tornado was to crops, it was assigned the EF-U (unknown) rating.
July 2024	Tornado (EFU)	Long Point	-	High resolution satellite imagery showed a tornado which began in La Salle County and crossed into Livingston County just south of N 4th Road. The only damage was to crops, with the last instance of crop damage just south of E 2400 North Road between N 100 East Road and N 200 East Road. Since the only known damage from this tornado was to crops, it was assigned the EF-U (unknown) rating.
February 2017	Tornado (EF2)	Long Point	-	A tornado began east of Rutland in La Salle County and increased in intensity as it crossed into Livingston County, where it tore the roof off of a house as it was likely at its peak intensity of EF2.The tornado then weakened and snapped a couple of trees before dissipating one mile west of Long Point.
September 2019	Hail	Long Point	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008844 in Record Group 79.
Livingston County	All 15 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.