[3] The historic building has since been moved to a museum in Brandon.

[4] Near Goshen Springs is the Armstrong Site, a prehistoric archeological settlement listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[5] Goshen Springs lies along a now-abandoned portion of the Illinois Central Railroad.

The Rebel passenger train once passed through Goshen Springs each day.

[6][7] In 1965, during the Civil Rights Movement, 31-year-old John Lee of Goshen Springs was found beaten to death on a county road.