Bishop Hill State Historic Site

Bishop Hill State Historic Site is an open-air museum in Henry County, Illinois.

It is located about 2 miles north of U.S. Route 34 in Bishop Hill, Illinois.

[2] Bishop Hill was the site of a utopian religious community founded in 1846 by Swedish pietist Eric Janson.

The state also owns the village park with a gazebo and memorials to the town’s early settlers and Civil War soldiers.

A museum building houses a collection of early American primitive paintings by colonist and folk artist Olof Krans.