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4 days ago · We buried him as best we could without a preacher.” There would be prosperity; however, “The early settlers were as a rule, poor,” said Ed. “In the spring of 1853, I was returning from looking up some logs up the river and being tired and hungry, stopped at Mound Prairie to get something to eat.
1 day ago · It has been home to Native American tribes, French explorers and traders and early American settlers. It saw prosperity and wars and was mostly wiped away by flooding 150 years ago. But researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale think much of the lost community of Kaskaskia can still be found and locating it could teach us important ...
A trailhead of the Trail of Tears that went through south Springfield (close by W Marcella Dr) Find one of the plaques describing the battle of Springfield. A plaque downtown dedicated to the memory of 3 innocent black men that were lynched in 1906 in Springfield, MO.
3 days ago · The ancestors of contemporary American Indians were members of nomadic hunting and gathering cultures. These peoples traveled in small family-based bands that moved from Asia to North America during the last ice age; from approximately 30,000–12,000 years ago, sea levels were so low that a “ land bridge ” connecting the two continents was ...
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2 days ago · Springfield, Illinois. / 39.79833°N 89.67583°W / 39.79833; -89.67583. Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh most-populous city, [10] the second largest outside of the Chicago ...
3 days ago · Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya).. The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
5 days ago · Nearly 170 years ago, Springfield had its own railroad station and the site of a Civil War skirmish, putting Springfield on the map for local historians. Photo by Mike Salmon
