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Monday, October 5, 2020
Illinois' Swastika Trail-- Part 5
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Michael John Neill's genealogy website.
He was looking at the Illinois Highway Maps collection in the Illinois Digital Archives collection. (he also has a place where you can go to it, very interesting).He looked at a 1922 map and noticed there were no numbers on the roads, this being the era of named roads and all.
He was surprised to see one named Swastika Trail near the Quad Cities area. This brought quite the thought into his head, as it did with me when I first saw it.
Today it is Illinois Highway 17. This map shows it starting in Galva, Illinois, and running west through Woodhull, Alphi, Viola, Aledo, Joy, New Boston and entering Iowa and going a short distance to Wapello.
Along with the name, a swastika symbol is show, only backwards to the one the Nazi used.
--RoadDog
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