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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Hardin County, Illinois
Adjacent to Hardin County, Illinois
▶ Gallatin County (10) ▶ Pope County (4) ▶ Saline County (17) ▶ Crittenden County, Kentucky (10) ▶ Livingston County, Kentucky (5) ▶ Union County, Kentucky (16)
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| On Canal Street (Illinois Route 1) at Market Street, on the right when traveling south on Canal Street. |
| | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and about twenty men passed this place in the fall of 1803 on their famous journey westward. Cave-In-Rock, a natural landmark near here, was well known and noted on some early maps of this area. The party continued . . . — — Map (db m154573) HM |
| On Canal Street (Illinois Route 1) at Market Street, on the right when traveling south on Canal Street. |
| | This natural cave located nearby was known to European explorers as early as 1729. Its location was noted in diaries and journals of travelers. It was noted on maps used by Lewis and Clark.
Late in the 18th century, The Cave was the habitat for . . . — — Map (db m155030) HM |
| On Market Street west of Locust Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | As the Big Creek Baptist Church is the oldest Baptist church in Illinois with continuous services, the site of the Big Creek Church is two miles west of this location. Elders Stephen Stilley and William Jones led in constituting the Big Creek Church — — Map (db m155007) HM |
| On Main Street (Illinois Route 34) west of Walnut Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Fluorite, the official Illinois state mineral, was discovered in 1839 by James Anderson while digging a well near Fairview Landing one half mile SW of this site. Fluorite was a waste product until the steel industry began using the mineral in their . . . — — Map (db m154632) HM |
| On Main Street (Illinois Route 34) at 2nd Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | People have been digging, processing and transporting fluorite (fluorspar) here since 1842. In the 1940s, Rosiclare and Hardin County led the U.S. in fluorite production and were known as "The Fluorite Capital of the World".
(left . . . — — Map (db m155067) HM |
| On Main Street (Illinois Route 34) at 2nd Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | William Pell, Jr. settled here in 1832, founded Pell's Landing. In 1874, Pell's Landing was incorporated as Rose Clare and became the City of Rosiclare in 1932. Always an important river town, the discovery of fluorite and other minerals in the area . . . — — Map (db m155069) HM |
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