Related Historical Markers

By Sean Flynn

Continental Divide Marker

SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER

1 ► Illinois, Cook County, Oak Park — Continental Divide —

On Oak Park Avenue at Ontario Street, on the right when traveling south on Oak Park Avenue.

You are standing on a Continental Divide. Water falling on this line separates and runs to the west and to the east. To the west the water flows to the Des Plaines River in River Forest, on to the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers and to the Gulf of . . . — — Map (db m230260) HM

2 ► Illinois, Cook County, Oak Park — Continental Divide —

On Lake Street east of Forest Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

You are standing on a Continental Divide. Water falling on this line separates and runs to the west and to the east. To the west the water flows to the Des Plaines River in River Forest, on to the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and to the Gulf . . . — — Map (db m237480) HM

3 ► Illinois, Cook County, Oak Park — Continental Divide —

On Chicago Avenue 0.1 miles west of East Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

You are standing on a Continental Divide. Water falling on this line separates and runs to the west and to the east. To the west the water flows to the Des Plaines River in River Forest, on to the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers and to the Gulf . . . — — Map (db m237482) HM

4 ► Illinois, Cook County, Oak Park — Continental Divide —

On North Avenue (Illinois Route 64) at Narragansett Avenue, on the right when traveling east on North Avenue.

You are standing on a Continental Divide. Water falling on this line separates and runs to the west and to the east. To the west the water flows to the Des Plaines River in River Forest, on to the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers and to the Gulf of . . . — — Map (db m241781) HM

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