A historic church near Benton survives despite decades of inactivity

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REND CITY, IL (Cesar Maragni – Benton Evening News Please Click to read the whole story. Here is an excerpt) While the historic Mt. Pleasant Church is located much closer to the village of Valier, and just a bit down the road from the ghost town of Rend City, the church actually has a Benton address. The picturesque old structure sits atop a hill that overlooks the church’s 100-year-old cemetery, and beyond that hundreds of aces of nearby farmland. The church was built in 1916. This was the fourth church building constructed on the site. The third building burned down. It sat just in front of this building in the corner of the cemetery.