Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0419Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a large river as seen from a hilltop, a number of trees surround the water. Above the image "86" is printed, below the image "18372 - Illinois River and Valley from Stared Rock. New State Park, Ill." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
18372
ILLINOIS RIVER AND VALLEY FROM STARVED ROCK, LA SALLE COUNTY, ILL.
Late. 41 (Degrees) 19' N.; Long. 88 (Degrees) 59' W.
The Illinois River is the most important stream whose course lies wholly within t state. It is formed by the junction of the Kankakee and Des Plaines rivers at the eastern border of Grundy County. From here it flows westward for 50 miles, then southwesterly for 300 miles to its junction with the Mississippi River about 40 miles above St. Louis. About one-half othe the state lies within the drainage basin of the Illinois River.
We have before us a picturesque view of the Illinois alley as seen from Starved Rock. In the distance, to the right, is the village of Utica. Within the limtis of this view, on the opposite side of the river, is the site of the ancient Indian village of Kaskaskia, first visited by whtie men in 1673 when Joliet and Marquette mae their way across the state along the Illinois River. This was the Indian village to which Maquetter returned as a missionary in 1675. Later, the Kaskaskia Indians, accompanied by the early French, moved dodn wth eIllinois and Mississippi rivers and settled on the American Bottoms at the mourh of the Kaskaskia River. Thus the name Kanskaskia in early colonial history was applied to two places in Illinois more than 300 miles apart.
Starved Rock, the edge of which appears in the immediate foreground, rises 120 feet above the river. It is the site of Ft. St. Louis established by La Salle in 1683.
Starved Rock State Park consists of more than 1,000 acres along the south side of the Illinois River.
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