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Monmouth is the county seat of Warren County in the U.S. state of Illinois . It is the home of Monmouth College and contains Monmouth Park , Harmon Park , North Park , Warfield Park , West Park , South Park , Garwood Park , Buster White Park and the Citizens Lake & Campground . It is the host of the Prime Beef festival [ [1] ], held annually the week after Labor Day.
The town was originally going to be called Kosciusko (the name was drawn out of a hat), but the founders of the town feared that it would be difficult to spell and pronounce, possibly a good thing, considering the butchering of Rio , Cairo , and Milan . [ citation needed ]
Monmouth was once home to one of the most unusually named high school sports organizations, the Zippers. Originally known as The Maroons, the Zipper nickname came about in the late 1930s when the school had a fast basketball team that would "Zip" up and down the court. Sports writers nicknamed them "The Zippers" and the name stuck. The school went with the "Zipper" nickname until the 2004-05 school year when Monmouth consolidated with Roseville and the new Monmouth-Roseville High School adopted the nickname "The Titans". [ citation needed ]
Monmouth was the home for Western Stoneware, known for its "Maple Leaf" imprint and for producing "Sleepy Eye" collectible ceramics, which are recognizable by the blue-on-white bas-relief Indian profile. Western Stoneware closed in June 2006. Three former employees of Western Stoneware will operate the facility under the name WS, Inc and have leased the building and logo from the city of Monmouth. [ citation needed ]
Settlers from Monmouth, Illinois went west to found Monmouth, Oregon . [ citation needed ]
Wyatt Earp was born in Monmouth. Mass murderer Richard Speck lived in Monmouth briefly as a child, and again in the Spring of 1966. Ronald Reagan lived in Monmouth for a while as a child when his dad worked as a shoe salesman at the Colwell Department Store. World-famous magician Nicola the Great, serpentine dancer Loie Fuller and billiards champion Ralph Greenleaf lived in Monmouth. [ citation needed ]
Monmouth College , a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) , was founded in Monmouth in 1853. It is the second-largest employer in the city. Pi Beta Phi , the first national secret college society of women to be modeled after the Greek-letter fraternities of men, was founded on its campus in 1867.
Monmouth is also known regionally as the Maple City. [ citation needed ]
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