History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois . COUNTIES. XX©. PART I. HISTORY OF CAIRO, BY H. C. BRADSBY. CHAPTER I. CITY OF CAIRO—THE FIRST STEAMBOAT ON WESTERN WATERS—GREAT EARTHQUAKE OF 1811- FIRST SETTLEMENT OF CAIRO—HOLBROOKS SCHEMES—A MUSHROOM CITY AND THE BUBBLE BURSTED —EARLY NAVIGATION OF WESTERN RIVERS—CAPT. HENRY M. SHREVE, ETC., ETC. And leaves the world to solitude and me.—Gray. THE earliest settlement of Cairo, on thepromontory of land formed by the junc-tion of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, datesback only sixty-six years ago. There arepersons yet living, not onl
History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois . COUNTIES. XX©. PART I. HISTORY OF CAIRO, BY H. C. BRADSBY. CHAPTER I. CITY OF CAIRO—THE FIRST STEAMBOAT ON WESTERN WATERS—GREAT EARTHQUAKE OF 1811- FIRST SETTLEMENT OF CAIRO—HOLBROOKS SCHEMES—A MUSHROOM CITY AND THE BUBBLE BURSTED —EARLY NAVIGATION OF WESTERN RIVERS—CAPT. HENRY M. SHREVE, ETC., ETC. And leaves the world to solitude and me.—Gray. THE earliest settlement of Cairo, on thepromontory of land formed by the junc-tion of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, datesback only sixty-six years ago. There arepersons yet living, not only who were bornthen, but who can even remember events ofthat time with distinctness. But these clear-headed old people are nearly all gone, andin a very few years there will be nothing leftus but the traditions of 1817, unless the pres-ent opportunity is conserved, and the factsplaced in a permanent form while it is yetpossible to obtain them from those who notonly saw, but were a part of the long-agoevents that have led to the present changedcondition of a
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