Washington, Illinois Flower Delivery
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La Tulipe flowers
Send fresh flowers to Washington, IL. Same day flower deliveries available to Washington, Illinois. La Tulipe flowers is family owned and operated for over 24 years. We offer our beautiful flower designs that are all hand-arranged and hand-delivered to Washington, Illinois. Our network of local florists will arrange and hand deliver one of our finest flower arrangements backed by service that is friendly and prompt to just about anywhere in Washington, IL. Just place your order online and we’ll do all the work for you. We make it easy for you to send beautiful flowers and plants online from your desktop, tablet, or phone to almost any location nationwide.
Washington Flower Delivery Service
Brighten someone’s day with our Washington, IL local florist flower delivery service. Easily send flower arrangements for birthdays, get well, anniversary, just because, funeral, sympathy or a custom arrangement for just about any occasion to Washington, IL. Need a last-minute floral arrangement? We offer same-day flower deliveries on most flower bouquets Monday thru Saturday to Washington, IL. Just place your order before 12:00 PM Monday thru Saturday in the recipient’s time zone and one of the best local florists in our network will design and deliver the arrangement that same day.*
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Washington Zip Codes:
61571
Washington: latitude 40.7048 – longitude -89.4345
Washington is a city in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. Washington is upon U.S. Route 24 and Illinois Route 8, northeast of East Peoria. The population was 15,134 at the 2010 census, a 39.6 percent increase beyond 2000. It is a suburb of Peoria and is portion of the Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Washington was founded in 1825 by William Holland Sr., who came from North Carolina and was hired by the U.S. government to find the child support for blacksmith services to the local Native Americans. During his long and eventful activity he was married three times, and was the father of twenty-one children: fourteen by his first wife and seven by his second wife. He had eighty-two grandchildren and fifty great grandchildren. He died in Washington on November 27, 1871, at the age of ninety-one. The publicize office (and unconventional the city) was originally named Holland’s Grove in 1833 before innate renamed in rave review of the first U.S. president, George Washington, in 1837.
In the 1920s, a man named George Heyl put Washington on the map as the home of the well-known Heyl Pony Farm. Some of the native barns nevertheless exist upon North Main Street. The Heyl Pony Farm supplied Shetland ponies to buyers in the region of the world; George Heyl with raised unqualified bred poultry. When Heyl died gruffly in 1932, it was recorded as one of the largest funerals ever held in Washington.
Another local site of fascination is the “old canning factory”, which is now occupied by American Allied Railway Equipment Company Inc. In 1943, the canning factory (which after the dogfight was run by the Libby’s company) had a shortage of workers, and the dealing out needed K rations and canned goods to feed the troops. So 50 captured German soldiers from the prisoner of encounter camp known as Camp Ellis in Fulton County were brought in. The Washington sub-camp was first commanded by Colonel John S. Sullivan, and cutting edge by Captain T. A. Cox. The POWs were brought in upon the obsolete rail parentage that ran next to Wood Street (the creation of a sentry tower can be seen just northeast of the intersection of Wood and Jefferson near the entrйe to the bike trail). They were trucked from the camp to various local farms to incite with the pumpkin harvest. The prisoners were allowed no visitors, nor could residents talk to the prisoners. An exception was made for local ministers, such as Pastor Kammeyer from St. Mark’s Lutheran who spoke fluent German and ministered to the POWs spiritual needs. Once a POW jumped from a truck going by the side of South Main Street and was with citation to shot before the protect realized he was just maddening to admittance his hat which had blown off.