Cairo Historic District

If you love history, come here. There's plenty of it. Who needs polished museums? This place has history and tells a story. Truly one of my favorite towns to drive around. If they could patch up the roofs to some of the buildings so they last longer that would be good.

Downtown Cairo looks like a war zone. I’ve never seen a city in such disarray. The leadership has the nerve to put up “No Littering” signs by the river, blaming visitors for their rodent problem.

I grew up in Cairo's Historic Park District. My family still lives there. My grandparents on my fathers side lived there before their passing. The house that was my fathers parents home, now his home is on the other side of St. Marys Park, on Park Place West, from where I grew up on Washington Avenue. Grew up within sight of Magnolia Manor, and Riverlore Mansion. Cairo despite being such a troubled little place of so much lost promise gave me a fantastic childhood, adolescents, and early adulthood. Almost all of my happiest memories of my life happened here. I attended preschool, kindergarten, grade school, and junior high in Cairo at parochial institutions. Even once served as a volunteer firefighter here. Be kind to old Cairo will you please? She is a very old but still grand as she can

Looks like something from a movie so sad how history is lost how and why baffle me how such a great city can turn into a wreck. It will take years and years for this place to turn around and new generations will accept that burnedout buildings is the norm

Very cool vibe! Almost totally abandoned but worth the trip!