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Mark Your Calendars

May 27, 2008: KVHS General meeting at the Kouts Library at 6:30

Program: Larry Clark, Porter County historian and Porter County Library Genealogy Department head will give a Beginning Genealogy Class.  He will also offer new ideas and sources for more advanced genealogists.  

 

June 24, 2008: KVHS General meeting at the Kouts Library at 6:30

Program: 2008 Collier Lodge Dig informational meeting and Dig sign-up.  We will be showing our KVHS video "Archaeological Adventure on the Kankakee River" and answer any questions you may have and sign-up volunteers who wish to work this years Dig.

 

July 7 - July 24, 2008: Collier Lodge Archaeological Dig 2008 Updated

More information......

 

August 23, 2008: Aukiki River Festival - Updated


Aukiki River Festival information link 

2008 Dig application and informational link

New 2008 Indiana Archaeological Law changes .pdf

2007 Dig News Articles and Pictures  

2007 Dig T-shirt logo's

2007 Collier Lodge Dig Plan - .PDF 

2006 Dig pictures  

Dunn's Bridge & Milford, IL Bridge

New Publication 

The Kankakee River Almanac  


2005 Archaeology Study at the Collier Lodge Site  
Stories and Pictures

2005 Dig Picture Gallery

An Analysis of Historic Ceramics at the Collier Lodge Site .PDF

An Analysis of Historic Ceramics at the Collier Lodge Site Microsoft Word


Kankakee River Potpourri  

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

Recent Updates

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"