This is Washington County Its First 150 Years 1818 1968
This is Washington County Its First 150 Years 1818 1968
Illinois Sesquicentennial Committee Historical Society of Washington County
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When it was abandoned, the building was moved to a nearby farm, where it still is being used as a farm shed. The editor of this book, luckily, has the old Bible used in this church, a gift of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Brinkman. 34 The - Meadow - in ■ the - Hole'' Perhaps you haven't heard of "The-Meadow-in- the-Hole. " But you have heard debates, pro and con, whether George Rogers ("lark and his group of "Kentucky's Long Knives" ever marched through Washington County, in their trek from Kaska...skia to V incennes. In Clark's company was a young soldier, Maj. Joseph Bowman, who kept a journal of the historic band's daily exploits. Archer Hulbert. Who studied this journal at length, writes in his "Historic Highways of America, " Vol. 8, to the effect that Clark did cross Washington county. Hulbert concludes "that on the eighth day of February 1779, enroute from Kaskaskia to Vincennes, Clark and his men were out of Randolph County, through the northwest corner of Perry County and finally gained the prairie south of Oakdale, Washing- ton County, at which point Elkhorn Creek was crossed at the famous 'Meadow-in-the-Hole' of old French days.
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