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Cantonment Wilkinson-Ville

CITY:

Grand Chain

COUNTY:

Pulaski

DEDICATED BY:

The State of Illinois

DEDICATION DATE:

January 1, 1935 at 6:00:00 AM

The marker is located just south of New Grand Chain, on the east side of IL Route 37.

On the Ohio River three miles south of here Cantonment Wilkinson-Ville, named for Gen. James Wilkinson, was established by Lt. Col. David Strong in 1797 as a post of the United States Army. It was garrisoned until 1804. Here are buried Colonel Strong and scores of soldiers who died.

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