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Illinois' reconstructed historic forts reconnect visitors to frontier America. Story By Hal Hassen and Kathy Andrews xploring the American frontier was exciting—discovering new plants and animals, standing in awe of new landscapes, learning the ways of native peoples.
Illinois pioneer Christiana Holmes Tillson noted in her account of life on the frontier, “Few would like to again pass through the bitterness.”. Life on the frontier proved difficult for all who were brave enough to travel to the West. These sites illustrate that struggle.
15 gru 2023 · For the past 16 years, undergraduate and graduate students at K-State have had dozens of paid-for opportunities to travel around the state and country for experiential learning through the Frontier Field Trip program.
The Illinois Territory (1776-1818) The capture of Kaskaskia by a small American force in July 1778 established a claim by the new United States to the Illinois Country. The 1783 Treaty of Paris formally awarded the area east of the Mississippi River to the new nation.
The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, its early statehood period, growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary Illinois of today.
11 sty 2012 · Map of frontier settlements in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. It includes birthplaces of notable figures, battlefields, trails and illustrations of one and two family stations.
Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site is a 200-acre (0.8 km 2) park near Chester, Illinois, on a blufftop overlooking the Mississippi River. It commemorates the vanished frontier town of Old Kaskaskia and the support it gave to George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution.
