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Kaskaskia-Shawneetown and Goshen Trails

CITY:

Old Shawneetown

COUNTY:

Gallatin

DEDICATED BY:

The Gallatin County Historical Society and The Illinois State Historical Society

DEDICATION DATE:

June 17, 2018 at 5:00:00 AM

This marker is located in the southeast corner of the intersection of Old Shawneetown Road and Main Street in Old Shawneetown.

In 1816 Congress appropriated $8000 dollars to survey and construct a road from Kaskaskia on the Mississippi to Shawneetown on the Ohio. It became an important east-west thoroughfare for settlers entering the Illinois Territory. At this point the Goshen Trail, which ran from Goshen settlement near Edwardsville to the Salines, near Equality, joined the Kaskaskia-Shawneetown Trail.

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