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Mark Your Calendars

 

Map to Collier Lodge site

September 14, 2010: KVHS general meeting (open to the public) at 6:30 at the Kouts Library (101 E. Daumer Rd).

Program: Dr. William "Bill" Mangold. The Middle Woodland Occupations of the Kankakee River Valley and Beyond. More information.... 

 

October 12, 1010: KVHS general meeting (open to the public) at 6:30 at the Kouts Library (101 E. Daumer Rd).

 

November 9, 2010: KVHS general meeting (open to the public) at 6:30 at the Kouts Library (101 E. Daumer Rd).

Program:  Dr. Michelle D. Stokely (Indiana University-Northwest) will give a program on Native-American bead work. More information...  


KVHS Highlight Section

2010 Aukiki River Festival photo gallery and news articles

2010 Collier Lodge Dig Pictures  

2010 Collier Lodge Archaeological dig plan

2010 Collier Lodge archaeological dig articles

2010 Collier Lodge Dig T-shirt design

Kankakee Valley Historical Society YouTube video link

Dr. William "Bill" Mangold dissertation THE MIDDLE WOODLAND OCCUPATIONS OF THE KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY AND BEYOND.pdf  

2009 Aukiki River Festival video 

2009 Aukiki River Festival Photo Gallery and News Articles Page

2009 Aukiki River Festival  Page  

2008 Aukiki River Festival Page  

"The Times" video link to Range Line Rd. Bridge #2 story  

Lake County Bridge #2 KVHS webpage  

KVHS T-shirt design and pricing  Collier Lodge t-shirt design by Wayne Cooper and Aukiki River Festival t-shirt added     

 Dunn's Bridge & Milford, IL Bridge



 


Kankakee River Potpourri  

Stories of the people, places and mystery's of the Kankakee River

Of Special Interest:

Porter County Sherriff David Lain historic police equipment collection pictures and video link 

Collier Lodge Restoration Images

Map showing location of Collier Lodge  

Collier family and early Collier Lodge pictures  

Archival Pictures of Baum's Bridge Hunt Clubs  

Our Kankakee Adventure-- by Joseph A. Singler  

The Kankakee in the Old Days--by Dr. F E Ling

They Say the Kankakee is Coming Back -- William Bridges  

The Kankakee "Marsh" of Northern Indiana and Illinois permission from "The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology" 

An Anthropological Report on the Indians of the Kankakee River permission from "The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology"