RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
The Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan, Missouri. It can be yours for $125,000. Lots of possibilities. Actually, now you're too late. Missouri's Roamin' Rich bought it.
Showing posts with label sauk Indians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sauk Indians. Show all posts
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Illinois' 200th Anniversary-- Part 4: Black Hawk and Lewis & Clark
This year marks the State of Illinois' 200th anniversary of being in the United States. It joined in December, 1818.
These are historical places every Illinoisan should visit at least once.
16. CHESS RECORDS-- Chicago-- 2120 S. Michigan Avenue. Where Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones and many others made music history.
17. PILSEN MURALS-- Chicago-- These murals have been up fifty years. Also, the neighborhood is still primarily Hispanic.
18. BLACK HAWK STATE HISTORIC SITE-- Rock Island-- The sauk and Fox Indians. Black Hawk led a failed attempt to reoccupy lands his people had lost to whites. This led to the brief Black Hawk War of 1832.
19. LEWIS AND CLARK-- Downstate near St. Louis-- Hartford, Illinois-- Reconstruction of Camp Dubois where Corps of Discovery spent the winter 1803-1804, preparing for their epic trip.
20. ILLINOIS CENTENNIAL MONUMENT-- Chicago-- Put up on 100th anniversary of statehood in 1918 in Logan Park. Depicts Native Americans, explorers, farmers and laborers.
--RoadIllinosDog
Friday, June 15, 2007
Talking About an Old Building and Old Roads in Indiana
The May 20th Merrillville, In, Post Tribune ran an article about the Merrillville/Ross Township Historical Museum at 13 West 73rd Avenue. It is "a historical building on a historical street in a historical part of town. 73rd Avenue was a human epic in the continent's settlement."
The building was originally a school, then, in 1977, when the town incorporated, it was city hall for 20 years. Today, it is a museum.
The street originally was a dirt path, then the Sauk Trail, the main road to Detroit. Spain owned it after its 1781 capture of British Fort Joseph at what is now Niles, Mi.
US troops took the Sauk Trail on their way to build Fort Dearborn at present-day Chicago. By 1876, it was known as the Joliet Wagon Road, a main route for farm produce to get to market.
The towns of Merrillville and Schererville grew up along it. In the 20th century, it became a part of the Lincoln Highway.
That Is Some Historic Road. --RoadDog
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