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September 13, 1977. The Orendorf Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located near the city of Canton, Fulton County, Illinois. The site includes four distinct areas of Middle Mississippian settlement; the settlement area was one of seven major sites in the Spoon River tradition. The four settlement sites within the larger site came as the ...
A Japanese glass fishing float. Glass floats were once used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.. Large groups of fishnets strung together, sometimes 50 miles (80 km) long, were set adrift in the ocean and supported near the surface by hollow glass balls or cylinders containing air to give them buoyancy.
Apple River Fort Site. Elizabeth: 0.25 miles east-southeast of the junction of Myrtle and Illinois Sts. 42°19′6″N 90°12′53″W / 42.31833°N 90.21472°W / 42.31833; -90.21472 (Apple River Fort Site) [6] Jo Daviess. Euro-American. 4. Warren Bane Site. Ellsworth: northeast of the junction of 3000E and 750N.
The Koster Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located south of Eldred, Illinois. The site covers more than 3 acres and extends 30 feet down into the alluvial deposits of the Illinois River valley. Over the course of its excavation between 1969 and 1978, Koster produced deeply buried evidence of ancient human occupation from the early ...
Nemi ships. Coordinates: 41°43′20″N 12°42′6″E. The remains of the hull of one of the two ships recovered from Lake Nemi. Workers in the foreground give an indication of scale. 1930. The remains of a Lake Nemi ship in 1929. The Nemi ships were two ships, of different sizes, built under the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st ...
Coordinates. 40°28′27″N 89°50′48″W / 40.47417°N 89.84667°W / 40.47417; -89.84667. Area. 2,032 acres (822 ha) Established. 1950. Governing body. Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Spring Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 2,032 acres (822 ha) in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States.
Worth is located in Illinois's 6th congressional district which is represented by Sean Casten (D-Downers Grove). Worth is located within 18th State Senate District, which is represented by William Cunningham (D-Chicago); and located in the 35th Representative District, which is represented by Fran Hurley (D-Chicago), and the 36th Representative ...
July 19, 1964 [ 2 ] 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 ...