This cemetery was created when graves were moved from Kaskaskia Island to Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site in the 1890s after a flood. According to one account 3,000 boxes were moved, some containing entire families.
off Karbers Ridge Road, approximately 20 miles southeast of Harrisburg
Elizabethtown, IL 62931
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The Shawnee Hills took millions of years to form. The rock formations and cliffs at Garden of the Gods are made of sandstone and are about 320 million years old. Long ago most of Illinois, western Indiana and western Kentucky were covered by a giant...
In business for something like 35 years, this store is run by Kim the sage know it all, David (who likes Sandie Shaw AND Ornette Coleman), Marcus, who is the second tallest employee and is relentlessly Chuck Berry-oriented.
Plaza/Wuxtry Records has...
Where pig iron was smelted in large brick outdoor ovens & shipped down the river during Civil War days. Picnic area, fishing, hiking, historical remains of charcoal-fired iron furnace.
Cypress Creek includes 15000 acres in the beautiful wetlands in the Cache River Watershed. Which along with the Cache River State Natural Area (Heron Pond and Little Black Slough) has been declared as wetlands of international importance.
Cedar Lake is a 1,750-acre reservoir created by the damming of Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Big Muddy River, in 1974. The lake is located south of Murphysboro and southwest of Carbondale, Illinois. Although the lake was constructed for the...