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    Shawneetown is a city in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,054 at the 2020 United States Census. It is the county seat of...
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    Old Shawneetown is a village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the village had a population of 113, down from 193 at...
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    populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Shawneetown. It is located in the southern portion of Illinois known locally as Little Egypt. Located at the...
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    moved to Illinois Territory in 1815. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois. When...
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    The Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site is an historic bank building in Old Shawneetown, Illinois, and is the oldest structure in Illinois built specifically...
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    Mississippi River. Other important early outposts in Southern Illinois were at Old Shawneetown and Fort Massac on the Ohio River. After defeating the French...
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  • 866 Symerton, Illinois – $17,863 Cambridge, Illinois – $17,842 Plano, Illinois – $17,837 Momence, Illinois – $17,836 Shawneetown, Illinois – $17,834 Green...
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    Cave-In-Rock Ferry (category Hardin County, Illinois)
    the Brookport Bridge at Paducah, Kentucky, and the Shawneetown Bridge at Old Shawneetown, Illinois. In October 1829, the county court of Livingston County...
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    John A. McClernand (category People from Shawneetown, Illinois)
    in 1816, his family moved to Shawneetown, Illinois. His early life and career were similar to that of another Illinois lawyer of the time, Abraham Lincoln...
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    James H. Wilson (category People from Shawneetown, Illinois)
    fourth-to-last living Union Civil War general. Wilson was born in Shawneetown, Illinois. He attended McKendree College for a year and graduated from the...
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    Michael Kelly Lawler (category People from Shawneetown, Illinois)
    companies in separate deployments to Mexico. He first led a company from Shawneetown Illinois that guarded the supply route from Vera Cruz to General Winfield...
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    Bridge, commonly known as the Shawneetown Bridge, is a cantilever truss bridge carrying Kentucky Route 56 and Illinois Route 13 across the Ohio River...
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    Beardstown) Coles (largest city: Charleston) Gallatin (largest city: Shawneetown) Grundy (largest city: Morris) Kankakee (largest city: Kankakee) Kendall...
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    was located just south of the city. The Goshen Trail began in Old Shawneetown, Illinois and ran along the east side of Eldorado and on to the Goshen Settlement...
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    early 19th century the Goshen Road crossed Illinois in a northwesterly direction from Old Shawneetown, Illinois to the Goshen Settlement, near what is now...
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    the Illinois Militia for safety of the civilians. Since the Shawnee Trail, an important trading route linking Kaskaskia, Illinois and Old Shawneetown, Illinois...
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    Pennsylvania to Illinois and to Georgia. Among their known villages were Eskippakithiki in Kentucky, Sonnionto (also known as Lower Shawneetown) in Ohio, Chalakagay...
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    nearest bridges over the Ohio are the Shawneetown Bridge 36 miles (58 km) upriver at Old Shawneetown, Illinois, and the Brookport Bridge 43 miles (69 km)...
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  • Thomas Sloo Jr. (category People from Shawneetown, Illinois)
    removed to Shawneetown, Illinois. Sloo remained in Shawneetown only briefly before moving farther west to western White County, Illinois. When Hamilton...
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    and later moved to Sylacauga, Alabama, eventually settling in Old Shawneetown, Illinois. He probably took part in the Battle of Point Pleasant during Lord...
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    William Lee D. Ewing (category People from Shawneetown, Illinois)
    born in Paris, Kentucky on August 31, 1795, and practiced law in Shawneetown, Illinois. James Monroe appointed him to be a land office receiver in Vandalia...
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    Robert and John McKee Peeples Houses (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois)
    John McKee Peeples Houses were a pair of adjoining houses in Old Shawneetown, Illinois. The Robert Peeples house was built shortly after statehood (the...
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    Wabash River (category Articles containing Miami-Illinois-language text)
    Dresser. Two counties (in Indiana and Illinois); eight townships in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; one Illinois precinct, one city, one town, two colleges...
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    Ohio River flood of 1937 (category 1937 in Illinois)
    Shawneetown was completely inundated and the residents were forced to move to a tent city on the outskirts. Property damages in the southern Illinois...
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    Railroad and Illinois South Eastern Railway, the Springfield and Illinois South Eastern Railway ran from Springfield to Shawneetown, Illinois. It was under...
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    between the Ohio River town of Shawneetown across Southern Illinois, through the town of Mulkeytown to the then capital of Illinois in Kaskaskia. A historical...
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    Julian Herman Lewis (category People from Shawneetown, Illinois)
    no further works after 1943. Lewis was born on May 26, 1891, in Shawneetown, Illinois, to John Calhoun Lewis, a freed slave, and Cordelia O. Scott Lewis...
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    Ohio River (category Articles containing Miami-Illinois-language text)
    States west of the Appalachian Mountains (by date of founding): Old Shawneetown, Illinois, 1748; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1758; Wheeling, West Virginia,...
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    May 4 – Arrived in Nashville, Tennessee May 7 – Stopped in Shawneetown, Illinois May 8–9 – Their steamboat Mechanic sinks on the Ohio River; all...
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    John Marshall House Museum (category 1819 establishments in Illinois)
    Marshall House Museum is a historic house museum located in Old Shawneetown, Illinois. The museum is a historically inaccurate (the original had a straight...
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