North Carolina Bound: Summer 2010-- Part 5-- Still in Illinois

O was happy to get to be on US-150 longer than I had thought I'd be since I picked it up at Danville, Illinois, where it was aligned with Illinois Highway 1 (Il-1).

With gas at $2.42 in Danville, I wished that i hadn't filled up in Gibson City.

Going south on US-150, I stopped for a history on a stick marker about Pontiac's Peace Treaty with the British which was initially signed July 18, 1765, at a place a few miles west of the marker.

CHIEF PONTIAC

After the French and Indian War, Britain received the French territory in what became the United States. This in no way pleased the Indians in the area, and one in particular, Ottawa Chief Pontiac became a real thorn to the British.

On May 3, 1763, Pontiac led an Indian attack on Fort Detroit and lay siege to it for six months. In the meantime, other tribes attacked other British forts. Eventually the British turned the tide and Pontiac withdrew.

George Crogham met with Pontiac in Illinois and got the chief to sign a preliminary peace treaty and then took him to Fort Detroit for finalization.

Pontiac was later killed in Cahokia, Illinois, in 1769 by an Indian.

This is for whom Pontiac, Illinois, on Route 66 is named.

In Chrisman I saw a place called Frost Up with a big root beer mug, but unfortunately it appeared to be closed.

US-150 cuts off Il-1 at Paris and heads east into Indiana. Paris is restoring the tower of its courthouse.

Indiana Wants Me. --RoadDog