Editing World's Columbian Exposition (section)

=== Country and state exhibition buildings ===
Forty-six countries had pavilions at the exposition.<ref name="WDL" /> [[Union between Sweden and Norway|Norway]] participated by sending the ''[[Viking (replica Viking longship)|Viking]]'', a replica of the [[Gokstad ship]]. It was built in Norway and sailed across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] by 12 men, led by Captain Magnus Andersen. In 1919, this ship was moved to [[Lincoln Park]]. It was relocated in 1996 to Good Templar Park in [[Geneva, Illinois]], where it awaits renovation.<ref>{{cite web | last =Nepstad | first =Peter | author-link =Peter Nepstad | title =The Viking Shop in Jackson Park | publisher =Hyde Park Historical Society | url =http://www.hydeparkhistory.org/herald/VikingShip.pdf | access-date =2009-01-24 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20090205134102/http://www.hydeparkhistory.org/herald/VikingShip.pdf | archive-date =2009-02-05 | url-status =live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last =Smith | first =Gerry | title =Viking ship from 1893 Chicago world's fair begins much-needed voyage to restoration | work =[[Chicago Tribune]] | publisher =Tribune Company | date =2008-06-26 | url =http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2008/06/viking-ship-fro.html | access-date =2009-01-24 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160821020041/http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2008/06/viking-ship-fro.html | archive-date =2016-08-21 | url-status =live }}</ref>

Thirty-four U.S. states also had their own pavilions.<ref name="WDL" /> The work of noted feminist author [[Kate McPhelim Cleary]] was featured during the opening of the Nebraska Day ceremonies at the fair, which included a reading of her poem "Nebraska".<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.lopers.net/faculty/b/bloomfields/cleary/KCLitBio.htm |title =Kate McPhelim Cleary: A Gallant Lady Reclaimed|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107134359/http://www.lopers.net/faculty/b/bloomfields/cleary/KCLitBio.htm |archive-date=2009-01-07 |website= Lopers.net}}</ref> Among the state buildings present at the fair were California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas; each was meant to be architecturally representative of the corresponding states.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Behling|first=Laura L.|date=October 2002|title=Reification and Resistance: The Rhetoric of Black Womanhood at the Columbian Exposition, 1893|journal=Women's Studies in Communication|volume=25|issue=2|pages=173–196|doi=10.1080/07491409.2002.10162445|s2cid=144977109|issn=0749-1409}}</ref>

Four [[United States territories]] also had pavilions located in one building: [[Arizona]], [[New Mexico]], [[Oklahoma]], and [[Utah]].<ref name="WDL" />

Visitors to the Louisiana Pavilion were each given a seedling of a cypress tree. This resulted in the spread of cypress trees to areas where they were not native.  Cypress trees from those seedlings can be found in many areas of West Virginia, where they flourish in the climate.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine = Wonderful West Virginia|date= August 2007 |page= 6|first = Kenneth L. |last = Carvell|title = Arboreal Mysteries Unraveled|url = http://www.wvdnr.gov/wwvmagazine/Archive/Batch2007/2007%20-%2008%20August.pdf}}</ref>

The [[Battleship Illinois (replica)|''Illinois'']] was a detailed, full-scale mockup of an [[Indiana-class battleship|''Indiana''-class battleship]], constructed as a naval exhibit.