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Detail of Plate A headdress Emmons Mask Plate B Plate C, with reconstructed tail based on Upper Bluff Lake plate Plate E. The eight plates are designated Plates A–H. Except for Plate B, which has two heads, all of the figures face to the right. All of the plates are missing the majority of their tail sections due to being struck by Groomes' plow.
Lake Bluff: The historic downtown district of Lake Bluff, Illinois, United States. There are fourteen properties in the district; of these, six buildings, one site, and one object contribute to its historic fabric as contributing properties. 54: Lake Forest Cemetery: Lake Forest Cemetery
It is part of the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, but it is on long-term loan to the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois where it is on display. [35] The Upper Bluff Lake plates are two plates found at the Saddle Site (11U284) in Union County, Illinois in the 1880s, in the same stone box grave. One of ...
Lake Bluff History Museum: Lake Bluff: Lake: Chicago area: Local history: Homepage: Lake County Discovery Museum: Libertyville: Lake: Chicago area: Multiple: Local art, history and popular culture: Lake Forest College Art Galleries: Lake Forest: Lake: Chicago area: Local history: Sonnenschein Gallery, Albright Room and Deerpath Student Gallery ...
The main trail of Ravine Park. Lake Bluff is located in the North Shore area at (42.281, -87 [5]A New Year's Day moonrise over Lake Michigan. According to the 2010 census, Lake Bluff has a total area of 4.057 square miles (10.51 km 2), of which 4.05 square miles (10.49 km 2) (or 99.83%) is land and 0.007 square miles (0.02 km 2) (or 0.17%) is water. [6]
Lake Bluff, Illinois was first settled in 1836. In the mid-1870s, the Lake Bluff Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist Episcopal camp, was founded on 200 acres (81 ha). Most structures at that point were of contemporary architectural styles, but were mostly one-story wood-frame buildings.
Lester Armour was the son of Philip Danforth Armour, Jr., thus the grandson of meatpacking magnate Philip Danforth Armour, Sr. Lester Armour was born in 1895 and attended Yale University before joining Armour and Company, the family business.
Bluff Lake Nature Center consists of a variety of native habitats including wetlands, short-grass prairie, a riparian zone and wetland woodland. Thanks to its 60 year history as an airport buffer, Bluff Lake has become an urban wildlife refuge for waterfowl, shorebirds, raptors, songbirds, deer, fox, beaver, reptiles, amphibians and other types of wildlife that visit or live at the site.