Kaskaskia - Shawneetown and Goshen Trail
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YoSam.
N 37° 47.931 W 088° 24.921
16S E 375394 N 4184440
From the Ohio River to the Mississippi, the main road of its day.
Waymark Code: WM3KBB
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 04/15/2008
Views: 58
Marker Erected by: The Illinois State Historical Society.
Marker Text:
KASKASKIA - SHAWNEETOWN
AND GOSHEN TRAIL In 1816 Congress appropriated 8,000 dollars to survey and construct a road from Kaskaskia on the Mississippi to Shawneetown on the Ohio. It became an important east-west thoroughfare for settlers entering the Illinois Territory. At this point, the Goshen Trail, which ran from the Goshen Settlement near Edwardsville to the Salines, near Equality, joined the Kaskaskia-Shawneetown Trail.
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