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This Week In Illinois History: Salt In Our State's Wounds (March 3, 1803)

This Week In Illinois History: Salt In Our State’s Wounds (March 3, 1803)
Edward Worthen poses with the 60-gallon iron kettle his grandfather used to extract salt in southern Illinois in the early 1800s (picture date unknown).
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Before coal, before oil, even before corn, the biggest and busiest industry in Illinois was salt.
This once-booming enterprise was located just southeast of Equality, in southern Illinois’ Gallatin County. The heavily brined water was pulled from springs, boiled down and the salt laid out to dry. Native Americans did this for generations, then they taught the process to the French. In 1763, after the French and Indian War, control of the salt springs went to the British. ....

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Early pioneer struggles include building their own place to live

Early pioneer struggles include building their own place to live
Star Courier
NEPONSET – Why would 1830’s Ohio and Pennsylvania families leave the comfort of towns, clap-board houses, general stores, schools and churches? Not to mention the livery stables, doctors and dentists. The answer is, not all folks were living in comfort. They were on lower rung of communities as tenant farmers, lower paid employees and young people with little future. Some farmers went west from the stony fields of New England, and Southern families went west from the crowded lands of Virginia and the Carolinas. Some suffering from bad luck, bad management or bad judgement with the law. Families were large, and only one child could inherit the family home. To European immigrants the American frontier offered political freedom and economic opportunity. As a group, they saw 160 acres of land offered in the Military Tract of 1812, Illinois Territory, North boundary as a way out. This specific are ....

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Panelists add depth to discussion on Edwards statue

Panelists add depth to discussion on Edwards statue
Topics include racism and history of slavery
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EDWARDSVILLE The primary goal of the “Beyond the Bronze: The Ninian Edwards Statue in Context” virtual event was to encourage discussion about what should be done with the statue, but the educational forum went well beyond the monument dedicated to the city’s namesake.
The event, hosted via Zoom by SIUE’s Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Center, was attended virtually by more than 100 people on Dec. 2 and featured a group of panelists with a wide range of expertise. ....

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