ASHFORD UNIVERSITY FIELD-- home of their baseball team and the Midwest League Class A LumberKings. A classic minor league field right by the Mississippi River.
CLINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY-- Housed in a Carnegie building for over a hundred years.
CURTIS MANSION-- Restored Victorian home of Lumber Baron George M. Curtis.
EAGLE POINT LODGE-- Built 1937. Overlooks Mississippi River and Lock and Dam 13.
EAGLE POINT PARK-- 200-acre park on the Mississippi River bluffs.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM-- Permanent collection of old photographs and an authentic 1924 kitchen.
SAWMILL MUSEUM-- Clinton's history as the "Lumber Capital of the World.
And, That's Just Some of the Stuff. --Cooter
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Sunday, July 18, 2010
July Mississippi River Trip-- Part 2
Friday July 16th.
The History of It
Drove through Thompson, Illinois, today on Il-84, a very pretty little town which is about to get some notoriety because the government is thinking about sending the Guantanamo prisoners there.
Clinton and Dubugue, Iowa, are river towns that at one time had lots of maritime trade. The same with Savanna, Illinois (no "H" in it).
At one time, Galena, Illinois, was a larger city than Chicago and bustling with shipping and steam boats. But the lead (called Galena Lead) played out and the river silted in to about a quarter of its original size and depth (because of the denuding of surrounding hillsides as men looked for the lead).
Time essentially then sidestepped Galena, leaving us with a town frozen in time back in the 1830s and 1840s. No urban renewal or altering was done.
Galena languished as such until the 1960s when it was "discovered" and today is a major tourist destination.
Lots of History in Them Thar Hills. --Cooter
The History of It
Drove through Thompson, Illinois, today on Il-84, a very pretty little town which is about to get some notoriety because the government is thinking about sending the Guantanamo prisoners there.
Clinton and Dubugue, Iowa, are river towns that at one time had lots of maritime trade. The same with Savanna, Illinois (no "H" in it).
At one time, Galena, Illinois, was a larger city than Chicago and bustling with shipping and steam boats. But the lead (called Galena Lead) played out and the river silted in to about a quarter of its original size and depth (because of the denuding of surrounding hillsides as men looked for the lead).
Time essentially then sidestepped Galena, leaving us with a town frozen in time back in the 1830s and 1840s. No urban renewal or altering was done.
Galena languished as such until the 1960s when it was "discovered" and today is a major tourist destination.
Lots of History in Them Thar Hills. --Cooter
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