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Cahokia winter solstice sunrise over Fox Mound and the Cahokia Woodhenge ca. 1000 AD. Artist's concept. Cahokia Mounds / k ə ˈ h oʊ k i ə / [2] is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) [3] directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis.
The original North American area codes were established by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1947, after the demonstration of regional Operator Toll Dialing during the World War II period. The program had the goal of speeding the connecting times for long-distance calling by eliminating intermediary telephone operators.
They also serves all of southeastern Missouri (including the Missouri Bootheel area) and areas adjacent to the Mississippi River. 573 was created on January 7, 1996, in a split of area code 314, which was limited to the St. Louis metropolitan area in Missouri, and 235 was added on March 24, 2024 as part of an overlay complex.
Cahokia is a settlement and former village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States, founded as a colonial French mission in 1689. Located on the east side of the Mississippi River in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area, as of the 2010 census, 15,241 people lived in the village. On May 6, 2021, the village was incorporated into the new ...
In 1752, Shawnee and Meskwaki allies of the British destroyed the primary Cahokia settlement. [1] [10] Survivors joined the neighboring Michigamea. [10] The River L'Abbe mission operated until 1752 when most of the Cahokia were considered to have left the area. From 1776 to 1784, a trading post named the Cantine was located close to Monks Mound.
Of these 12, only the Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Peoria, Tamaora, and Michigamea remain; others were lost as distinct tribes to disease and warfare. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] When the Illinois were first documented by Europeans in the 17th century, they were said to be a population of about 10,000 people. [ 13 ]
Area code 660. Coordinates: 39°N 93°W. Area codes of Missouri. Area code 660 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the northern and western part of the U.S. state of Missouri. It was created on October 12, 1997, in a split of the 816 numbering plan area (NPA)
This is a list of telephone area codes in the state of Missouri. The area codes are allocated within the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). The two original area codes for Missouri in 1947 were 314 and 816. Area code 417 was split off from 816 in 1950, and the other area codes followed more than 40 years later, due to the proliferation of ...