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Mark Your Calendars

August 16, 2008: Work party at the Collier Lodge 9 AM - work finished.  We need yard tools for the grounds work and cleaning supplies for the KVHS trailer. 

 

August 23, 2008: Aukiki River Festival - Updated

 

September 21, 2008: KVHS picnic


Aukiki River Festival information link Updated

2008 Collier Lodge Archaeological Dig page & links

 

 

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

 

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

 


Kankakee River Potpourri  

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

Of Special Interest:

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"