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The Chicago Portage was an ancient portage that connected the Great Lakes waterway system with the Mississippi River system. Connecting these two great water trails meant comparatively easy access from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River on the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, and the Gulf of Mexico.
This list of ancient watermills presents an overview of water-powered grain-mills and industrial mills in classical antiquity from their Hellenistic beginnings through the Roman imperial period. The watermill is the earliest instance of a machine harnessing natural forces to replace human muscular labour (apart from the sail ). [ 3 ]
[3] Landmark name Image Location County Culture Comments; 1: Albany Mounds Site: Albany: Albany Mounds Trail 4]: Whiteside: Middle Woodland: Hopewell: 2: Alton Military Prison Site: Alton: inside the block bounded by Broadway and William, 4th, and Mill Sts. 5]: Madison: Euro-American: 3: Apple River Fort Site: Elizabeth: 0.25 miles east-southeast of the junction of Myrtle and Illinois Sts. 6 ...
The city of Chicago is located in northern Illinois, United States, at the south western tip of Lake Michigan. It sits on the Saint Lawrence Seaway continental divide at the site of the Chicago Portage, an ancient trade route connecting the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes watersheds.
Nora Mill at Helen, Georgia; Illinois. Franklin Creek Grist Mill, Franklin Creek State Natural Area, Franklin Grove, Illinois [1] Graue Mill and Museum, [2] Oak Brook; Indiana. Beck's Mill, Becks Mill; Bonneyville Mill, Bristol. Built mid-1830s and still operates May through October (see Elkhart County Parks and Recreation) Mansfield Roller ...
The official opening of the NHM took place on December 10th, 2011 and proved to be a marked event within the Greek community of Chicago. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Created to promote understanding of the rich cultural traditions of ancient and contemporary Greece , as well as a focus on the Greek-American immigrant experience, the National Hellenic Museum has ...
The first Greek immigrants to settle in Chicago arrived in the 1840s via the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. The major fires of Chicago in 1871 caused significant further quantities of Greek immigrants to move to the area, including the founder Christ Chakonas, later dubbed the "Columbus of Sparta," [ 3 ] inspired by the prospect of rebuilding ...
This artifact has been found at the Fisher/Huber Griesmer site in Northwestern Indiana, just to the east of Chicago; [8] and other sites in the Midwest, especially Illinois, and is variously defined as a "knife", "scraper", "spade" or "celt"; the specimen at Anker was associated with a burial Antler Knives 2 Domestic function / cutting applications