Tonty recuperated from his wounds, and in June 1681 he rejoined La Salle at Michilimackinac. The two then led an expedition southward that established a settlement at Fort St. Louis on theIllinois River. The next year, Tonty and La Salle explored theMississippi Riverto its mouth, claiming ...
Camp Irwin Twelve miles inland from Port Lavaca, the Second Illinois Volunteers of Brigadier-General John E. Wool established Camp Irwin on August 1, 1846, as a holding camp until their supplies arrived. Nothing remains of Camp Irwin, except a place in history. Camp Waul Camp Waul was a Co...
Fort D Historic Site About In the summer of 1861, four forts were built around the strategic city of Cape Girardeau on the orders of General John Frémont. Designed by German-American engineers from St. Louis, the forts were built by soldiers of the 20th Illinois Infantry, Bissell’s Enginee...
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Robert Bollie Stanley was born and raised in Shallotte. He was called to duty for World War I onMarch 29, 1918. He was one of a total of 25 Black men from Brunswick County ordered to report that day. Their destination wasCamp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. ...
The best beaches in Fort Lauderdale are the cream of an abundance of sandy shores on the Atlantic Ocean. Fort Lauderdale boasts more than 300 days of sunshine per year, so there’s plenty of time to enjoy them, too. The... 10 Best Things to Do in Fort Lauderdale ...
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Glass trade beads are described here from two seventeenth-century sites located in the upper Illinois Valley, La Salle's 1682–1691 Fort St. Louis and the nearby Grand Village of the Kaskaskia, destroyed during an Iroquois raid in 1680. Simple monochrome drawn beads characterize both bead ...
Big Boy made several "whistle-stops" in Texas on its tour, including Hearne, Navasota, Hempstead, Houston, Spring, Marlin and West. Big Boy's tour began Aug. 28 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and continued across nine additional states: Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska...
If you are based in New Lenox, Illinois, then the chances are you must have heard about the Nelson Ridge Family Dental ... For more information onWhat You Want To Know About Nelson Ridge Family DentalRead More Habits that Damage Teeth : Good...