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This historical reconstruction of an 1832 civilian fort from the Black Hawk War, in Illinois, featured a stockade with a blockhouse. A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls, made of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall. [1]
Galena is the largest city in and the county seat of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. [7] It had a population of 3,308 at the 2020 census. [6] A 581-acre (235 ha) section of the city is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Galena Historic District.
The Galena Historic District is a historic district located in the city of Galena, Illinois, United States.The historic district encompasses 85 percent of the city of Galena and includes more than 800 properties.
St. Francisville is rooted in a stockade built by Joseph Tougas in the early 1810s. The city was platted by Tougas's widow in the mid-1830s. The city was platted by Tougas's widow in the mid-1830s. It was named for St. Francis Xavier , reflecting the growing influence of Jesuit missionaries in the area.
Location of Jo Daviess County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jo Daviess County, Illinois.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States.
A prominent example is the Cahokia Mounds site in Collinsville, Illinois. A wooden stockade with a series of watchtowers or bastions at regular intervals formed a three-kilometre-long (2 mi) enclosure around Monk's Mound and the Grand Plaza.
Sirloin Stockade Steakhouse & Buffet is an American family-style all-you-can-eat buffet steakhouse restaurant chain and franchisor founded in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1966. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As of June 2016 [update] , the parent company, Stockade Companies, operated over 80 restaurants in the United States and Mexico.
The earliest settlers in the vicinity of Apple River Fort, probably miners, likely arrived more than a decade before the fort's construction. The miners settled the site and built log cabins around and near the Kellogg's Trail, a route from Galena to Dixon's Ferry; they obtained fresh water from a nearby spring.