Papers in Illinois history and transactions . l has always been known as an Indian trail. Mr. Brashar statedthat it led from the Watch Tower to where the saw mill was on theMississippi at 24th St., Rock Island, which is opposite the island ofRock Island. It is interesting to note that in 1908, when the grandson of BlackHawk visited here, Mr. Sears found him at the top of this same ridgelooking for the trail back to the Down Town of Rock Island. Thisgrandson of the old war chief was born here and was quite a boy at thetime of their expulsion through the Black Hawk War, in 1832. Thistrail, since
Papers in Illinois history and transactions . l has always been known as an Indian trail. Mr. Brashar statedthat it led from the Watch Tower to where the saw mill was on theMississippi at 24th St., Rock Island, which is opposite the island ofRock Island. It is interesting to note that in 1908, when the grandson of BlackHawk visited here, Mr. Sears found him at the top of this same ridgelooking for the trail back to the Down Town of Rock Island. Thisgrandson of the old war chief was born here and was quite a boy at thetime of their expulsion through the Black Hawk War, in 1832. Thistrail, since the early white settlements here, has not been used as apublic highway. At page 26 of Armstrongs The Sauks and the Black HawkWar is to be found an account of a fence built of post and poles,extending from Rock river near the Watch Tower, northward forfour miles to the Mississippi, to opposite the foot of the island ofRock Island. The southern part of this fence was kept up by theSauks, and the northern part of it by the Foxes. Mr. Armstrong. The Indian Trail from Black Hawks Watch Tower to Fort Armstrong,th Ave. Rock Island projected east 800 feet would intersect this Trail.
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