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Hanover is located at (42.256058, -90.280674 [5]According to the 2010 census, the village has a total area of 1.05 square miles (2.7 km 2), all land. [6] Hanover sits in the northwest corner of Illinois, within five miles of the Mississippi River.
The Hotel Plaza site (Ls-36) is located near Starved Rock, on the Illinois River across from the Zimmerman site (aka Grand Village of the Illinois.It is a multi-component site representing prehistoric, protohistoric and early historic periods, with the main occupation being an early Historic component associated with the French Fort St. Louis.
The Grand Village of the Illinois, also called Old Kaskaskia Village, is a site significant for being the best documented historic Native American village in the Illinois River valley. It was a large agricultural and trading village of Native Americans of the Illinois confederacy , located on the north bank of the Illinois River near the ...
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The site includes a village area and a platform mound; the latter is the only known platform mound in the Apple River Valley. The village was occupied from roughly 1100 to 1250 A.D., toward the end of the Late Woodland period and the beginning of the Mississippian period ; it is associated with a transitional phase between the two periods known ...
The Larson Site was a stockaded village with a large flat-topped mound in an open plaza surrounded by homes. [3] [4] The Larson site was located at the confluence of the Spoon River and Illinois River. [5] Spoon River Mississippian consists of three phases: [6] Eveland (A.D. 1050–1150) Orendorf (A.D. 1150–1250) Larson (A.D. 1250–1300)
The site was brought to the attention of the Illinois State Museum as it was scheduled to be destroyed during construction of the Bulls Island Cut-Off on the Illinois River. Salvage excavations took place in 1940, but a comprehensive site report was not generated until James A. Brown created one in 1967. [1]
Founded in 1846 by religious dissidents who emigrated from Sweden to establish a new way of life on the Illinois prairie, the colony was run as a commune until its dissolution in 1861. The Bishop Hill Colony was the landmark Swedish settlement in Western Illinois leading the large Swedish-American communities in Galesburg, Rock Island, and ...