County: Ogle
Location: The marker is located 1.5 miles
east of Polo on Pines Road, just east of where Pines Road
meets Oregon Trail Road. It is on the south side of
the road facing north.
N 41o 59.315
W 089o 32.607
Erected: 01/01/1964 Erected by: Polo Historical Society and the Illinois State Historical Society
In 1825 Oliver W. Kellogg blazed a trail from Peoria to Galena which passed east of this site. On a spring day in the following year John Boles marked a shorter route near this point. The news of the Boles Trail spread and it became a heavily traveled route for the next three years.
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