George Rogers Clark - Fort Massac - Metropolis, IL
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YoSam.
N 37° 08.542 W 088° 42.751
16S E 347905 N 4112038
Revolutionary War leader.
Waymark Code: WM3JG3
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 04/12/2008
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IN MEMORY OF
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
and his faithful companions in arms
who by their enterprise courage
devotion and sagacity won the
ILLINOIS COUNTRY for The COMMON
WEALTH OF VIRGINIA and so for
THE AMERICAN UNION. This monument
has been erected in the name of a grateful people.
1907
This statue resides on the banks of the Ohio River in Fort Massac State Park on the outskirts of Metropolis Illinois. Clark used the Ohio River, as he did other rivers, as his highway through the then wilderness.