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Kankakee Sands is a 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) complex of tallgrass prairie and oak savanna restorations and remnants in Kankakee County, Illinois and Newton County, Indiana. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is managed by The Nature Conservancy staff and volunteers.
Kankakee River Plain; [6] - The largest unit of outwash is along the Kankakee River from South Bend to the Illinois border. It is 15 miles (24 km) to 20 miles (32 km) wide including the Kankakee Marsh and the surrounding sand and gravel plains. [4] Tippicanoe- Iroquois plain - The next largest unit is along the Tippecanoe River in Fulton County.
Grand Kankakee Marsh County Park, part of the Kankakee River, was established in 1979, with 920 acres of marshland restored. [10] Beaver Lake in Indiana was drained due to land speculation that started with the Swamp Land Act. The lake bed is included in Kankakee Sands, a nature preserve overseen by the Nature Conservancy. [11] [12]
By nature, this was once a rich, biodiverse land that sat just beyond the sprawling wetland known as the Grand Kankakee Marsh, a detoxifying cleanser of local water, which people had drained ...
The drainage process began in 1854, when a ditch running from Beaver Lake to the Kankakee River was dug. The Indianapolis Journal correctly predicted that Michael Bright intended to drain the lake and claim ownership of the land. Indeed, once Bright purchased the entire shoreline of the lake, he declared that he owned, "the bed of said lake ...
The sprawling wetland known as the Grand Kankakee Marsh once served as a detoxifying cleanser of the South Bend region's waters, including what residents drank.. People drained it decades ago and ...
This is the last section of the Grand Kankakee Marsh that has never been ditched. It is at Momence that the river crosses a seven-mile (11 km) limestone shelf, referred to as the Momence Dam. This natural feature's resistance to erosion created a blockage in the flow of the Kankakee River, backing up water and thereby creating the Grand Marsh ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.