Papers in Illinois history and transactions . he records of the county clerksoffice of Rock Island county, at page 40 thereof, is a plat filed in 1856showing the public road in Section thirty in Black Hawk township, onwhich the crest of the ridge in the southeast quarter of the said sectionis designated as Army Ridge Bluffs, and the creek below is calledArmy Trail Creek. At the present, however, the creek is called Tur-key Hollow creek, and the bluff is Turkey FEollow hill. The publicroad leads from the high ridge down to the bottom land and to theBlack Hawk village site, six miles to the nort
Papers in Illinois history and transactions . he records of the county clerksoffice of Rock Island county, at page 40 thereof, is a plat filed in 1856showing the public road in Section thirty in Black Hawk township, onwhich the crest of the ridge in the southeast quarter of the said sectionis designated as Army Ridge Bluffs, and the creek below is calledArmy Trail Creek. At the present, however, the creek is called Tur-key Hollow creek, and the bluff is Turkey FEollow hill. The publicroad leads from the high ridge down to the bottom land and to theBlack Hawk village site, six miles to the northeast. We were taken tothis Army Ridge Bluff by Mr. Almon A. Buffum of Edgington,Illinois, and William H. Miller who resides two and a half miles southof the spot under consideration. Air. Buffums account of the trail |1 t: f^^^^ H^^^ r ^^H^M^^^^M \X mm ^^^S The Ford at Camp Creek. Messrs John Montgomery and Eli Perry arestanding where the large Walnut tree was felled across the stream for thecrossing of the 111. Vols, in the Black Hawk The Indian and Military Trail immediately south of Camp Creek. at the left is standing in the trail. 103 at this point was as follows: There was a tree known as the Lin-coln Tree just at the edge of the bluff north of the school (whichstands in the southwest corner of the s. e. quarter of section 30 inBlack Hawk township). It was an ill-shaped tree, run over bywagons and the bark peeled off. I grubbed this tree out and plantedpotatoes there. It would be just south and a little west- of Vettershouse. There was an old road there which I broke up and plantedto potatoes. This road or trail was known as the Indian trail and alsoas the military trail, along which the soldiers came during the BlackHawk war, and the reason the tree was called the Lincoln Tree wasbecause Lincoln had come past there as a soldier in that war. Thisroad or trail came by the Scotch Taylor place and came on alongthe top of the ridge, sometimes on one side o
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