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Mark Your Calendars

 

July 6th - July 23rd: 2009: Collier Lodge Archaeological Dig:  more information

 

August 22, 2009: Aukiki River Festival more information.... -Updated

 


KVHS Highlight Section

2009 Collier Lodge Dig news articles and photo gallery

2009 Collier Lodge Dig Plan

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

Lake County Bridge #2 KVHS webpage

Kankakee Valley Historical Society video link

2009 Aukiki River Festival Page

2009 Collier Lodge Dig T-shirt designs and order forms

2008 Aukiki River Festival Page

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     

 

Dunn's Bridge & Milford, IL Bridge

KVHS 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"