Millstone Bluff Archeological site IL

[oldcrow]

Stopped here the other day and walked around. Very interesting site. As you arrive in the parking area you see the bluff and the area that was a rock quarry many years ago. They quarried the stone that used for the Millstones

 

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Then you make you way up the trail to the top of the bluff where an entire village used to exist many many many years ago

 

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These are the carvings they are all on one rock.

 

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While standing at the carvings I heard a ruckus in the leaves below.

 

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[Older The Better]

Nice, feel like I just visited myself, good way to start a day.

 

[OntarioArch]

Thanks for posting this most interesting series of photos/text.
Attached is our family millstone which traveled on a wagon in 1830's from Vermont to Cayuga County NY, where my ancestor built an early gristmill. The mill appears on the earliest maps of our township. I'm told the millstone is made of 'Vermont granite', but have no record of where is was quarried.

 

[oldcrow]

Thanks for posting this most interesting series of photos/text.
Attached is our family millstone which traveled on a wagon in 1830's from Vermont to Cayuga County NY, where my ancestor built an early gristmill. The mill appears on the earliest maps of our township. I'm told the millstone is made of 'Vermont granite', but have no record of where is was quarried.

So cool. Thanks for sharing your family history. That's awesome.

 

[RGINN]

Pretty cool, thanks for posting. I've been to the Alibates flint quarries in Texas and to where paleos quarried Kremmling chert up here in Middle Park. Sometimes these quarries are said to be 'old Spanish mines', but they aren't.