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Volunteers dig up history in field near Colona
Tom Loebel and a group of about a dozen volunteers spent Sunday sifting through a Quad Cities field, hoping to find artifacts dating back more than 9,000 years. Author: Josh Lamberty (WQAD) Updated: 11:18 PM CDT May 9, 2021
COLONA, Ill. In a big field near Colona, a group of about a dozen volunteers is searching for small signs of history. It’s a big puzzle, said Kenny Hipskind. And some of the pieces are missing.
Hipskind first found artifacts in the field in 2000, along with his son. He brought some of what he found to an archaeologist.
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Diving boards at public beach house. Is there any other place that figures so centrally in the social, recreational and erotic life of so many Springfieldians from so many backgrounds? A summer evening with a fishing line in the water, listening to the waves lapping on the old dam steps. Watching the moon rise over the water with a lover. Paddling about in the backwaters, where muskrats had the right of way. Motoring around the lake roads with the windows down on a muggy night It is hard to imagine Springfield without its lake. It is even harder to imagine that Springfield actually built it. How it built it, and with what result, is the subject of a new photo history,
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Many people consider the Chicago Portage to be the transportation link that spurred the growth of Chicago. Some call it the Birthplace of Chicago or even Chicago s Plymouth Rock. Whatever you call it, the Byron Forest Preserve is hosting a free Zoom lecture about the portage s history dating back to the Ice Age. Paula Bryant is an archaeologist with Illinois State Survey Archaeology and she will lead the lecture.
Sculpture at the Chicago Portage.
Credit Connie Kuntz This place has been known to Native American groups for thousands of years, she said. Then in 1673, the French voyagers Marquette and Joliet were on their expedition and were recommended this area as a shortcut to get back to their area around Green Bay by going up the Illinois River instead of further up the Mississippi.