Papers in Illinois history and transactions . TlK liidiun and Alilitary Trail on the hillside at Turkey Hollow, showins;that the highways of the Indian suffered no less from heavy rains than doours of today. Messrs. Miller and Buffum appear in the Traces of the Indian and Military trail in Turkey Hollow,used by the early settlers as a public highway. It was also 105 the public road from each other, and the eighteen hundred men withtheir mounts would probably more than cover both tracts. Jacob Harris, December, 1915, of Edgington, said: Speakingof the Indian trail, it went down Turkey
Papers in Illinois history and transactions . TlK liidiun and Alilitary Trail on the hillside at Turkey Hollow, showins;that the highways of the Indian suffered no less from heavy rains than doours of today. Messrs. Miller and Buffum appear in the Traces of the Indian and Military trail in Turkey Hollow,used by the early settlers as a public highway. It was also 105 the public road from each other, and the eighteen hundred men withtheir mounts would probably more than cover both tracts. Jacob Harris, December, 1915, of Edgington, said: Speakingof the Indian trail, it went down Turkey Hollow on the east side ofthe present road, the right hand side as you go down the hill. I usedto play in the Indian trail when I was a boy. We didnt think any-thing about it then. There used to be lots of Indians come here inmy time and Ive seen them traveling on the old trail. There wasmore than one Indian trail. The one across Littles farm, east ofTaylor Ridge, was not the main trail. The Indians would have apath and theyd follow the leader like sheep. If there were five hun-dred of them theyd keep one path. The trail passed right by the oldPrairie Union school which at that time was a half mile north and aquarter of a mile west of where it is n
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