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Seven pit features were described, categorized into three types: storage pits (4), 1 “ash-filled” pit, and two pits filled with broken stone (aka fire-cracked rock) which were interpreted as roasting pits. [1] The refuse pits were thought to have first been storage pits that were converted into refuse pits once their contents began to sour.
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. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
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 ...
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Aug. 4—Established more than 100 years ago at the Nut Tree in Vacaville, the National Pumpkin Weigh Off is moving to Bishop's Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland starting on Sept. 30. This all-day event ...
May 7—Bill Bishop, longtime Yuba-Sutter resident and founder of Bishop's Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland, died in his sleep at his home in Placer County last week. He was 83 years old. Wayne Bishop ...
Feature 15 was a bell-shaped storage pit that contained a fragment of iron interpreted by the excavators to be early European in origin. [2] An additional 55 features were identified in the 1979 excavations. They noted little variation in most of the pits and they may be interpreted as fire, storage or refuse pits. [1]
Bishop is an unincorporated community in Forest City Township, Mason County, Illinois, United States. [2] Bishop is 3 miles (4.8 km) west-southwest of Forest City. The community was founded in 1875 as a station on the Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville Railroad. The town was named for the site owner Henry Bishop. Bishop's Station post office was ...