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Mythic Mississippi Project

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  • WELCOME!
  • EVENTS AND NEWS
  • PROJECT PUBLICATIONS
  • PROJECT FILMS
  • PROEJCT VIDEOS
  • PROJECT INTERVIEWS
  • ILLINOIS HERITAGE TOURS
    • Mythic Sampler
    • Always Alton Tour
    • French Illinois Tour
    • Coal Mining Is Labor History Tour
    • Faith and Freedom Tour
    • Native American Tour
    • Remarkable Route 4
  • THE RIVER
    • The Confluence (Alton)
    • LEWIS & CLARK AT THE CONFLUENCE
    • Mark Twain
    • Captain Luke Moore
    • Melvin Price Locks and Dam (Alton)
    • National Great Rivers Museum (Alton)
  • ALTON
  • COAL MINING IS LABOR HISTORY
    • COAL
    • Battle of Virden 1898
    • General Alexander Bradley
    • Dale Hawkins portraying General Bradley
    • John Alexander discusses Virden
    • Mother Jones
    • Loretta Williams as Mother Jones
    • Progressive Miners of America (PMA)
    • Women’s Auxiliary of PMA
    • Black miners
    • Joann Condellone’s retrospective on coal mining
    • Nelson Grman – audio interview
    • Cecil E. Roberts
  • COAL TOWNS IN CENTRAL IL.
    • Benld
    • Cardiff disappeared
    • Carlinville
    • Collinsville, IL
    • Gillespie
    • Hillsboro
    • Mt. Olive
    • Moweaqua
    • Pana
    • Panama, IL
    • Taylorville
    • Virden
  • COAL MINING MEMORIALS
    • Braidwood memorial
    • Centralia memorials
    • Cherry memorials
    • Glen Carbon memorial
    • Herrin memorials
    • Marissa memorial
    • Moweaqua memorial
    • Mt. Olive Union Miners Cemetery memorials
    • PANA memorial
    • Panama Union Cemetery memorial
    • Royalton memorial
    • Sesser memorial
    • Springfield coal miner statue
    • Taylorville memorials
    • Virden – battle memorial
    • West Frankfort memorial
    • Westville memorial
    • Zeigler memorial
  • COAL MINING MUSEUMS
    • COALFIELD REST AREA
    • COFFEEN (anticipating museum)
    • GILLESPIE Illinois Coal Museum
    • Marissa Museum
    • MT. OLIVE Mother Jones Museum
    • MOWEAQUA Coal Mine Museum
    • PANA History Museum
    • Panama museum
    • TAYLORVILLE Christian County Coal Mine Museum
  • GREAT WESTERN ILLINOIS EXPERIENCE
    • FORGOTTONIA
    • CANTON, IL
    • CARTHAGE, IL
    • COLCHESTER, IL
    • GALESBURG, IL
    • HAVANA, IL
    • Ipava, IL
    • LEWISTOWN, IL
    • LINCOLN’S NEW SALEM, IL
    • PETERSBURG, IL
    • MACOMB, IL
    • NAUVOO, IL (post Mormon period)
    • WARSAW, IL
  • MORMON QUARTET
    • Carthage and the Mormons
    • Nauvoo of the Mormons
    • Quincy and the Mormons
    • Warsaw and the Mormons
  • AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE SITES IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
    • Abolitionist Edward Coles
    • Springfield UGRR
    • 1908 Race Riot Site
    • Central IL African American History Museum
    • Jacksonville
    • Godfrey and Rocky Fork
    • New Philadelphia
    • Otterville
    • Brooklyn
  • SPRINGFIELD
  • CHESTER
  • FRENCH ILLINOIS ↓
    • Cahokia (town not mounds)
    • Kaskaskia
    • Kaskaskia-Cahokia Trail
    • Fort Kaskaskia
    • Fort de Chartres
    • Prairie du Rocher
    • Pierre Menard Home
    • Garrison Hill Cemetery
  • NATIVE AMERICAN ILLINOIS
    • Bunker Hill
    • Cahokia Mounds WHS
    • Dickson Mounds
    • Edwards Trace
    • Emerald Mound
    • Kampsville
    • Piasa Bird
    • Potawatomi Marker
    • 1814 Massacre Site
  • PRESERVING ILLINOIS HERITAGE
    • Historical Markers
    • Historical Archaeology
    • Historic Preservation
    • IL Heritage Agencies
  • LESSON PLANS
    • Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippian Culture
    • French Colonial IL
    • Coal and Labor in IL
    • Lincoln in Illinois
    • Springfield of the Madeirans
    • Madeiran Immigrants in Illinois and Urbanization
    • Underground Railroad in IL
    • New Philadelphia then and now
    • Mormon History in IL
    • German History IL
    • Statue Removal Controversy in Illinois
    • Historical Documents as Rhetorical Texts
    • Freedom Project
  • POWERPOINTS FOR LESSON PLANS
  • RESOURCES
  • IDEAS FOR DISCUSSION
    • Sites of Conscience
    • Lacy McDonald
    • labor struggle continues
    • labor music
    • UI News Bureau interview with Prof. Helaine Silverman
    • Quincy, city of refuge and more
    • Monuments and Controversy
    • Where is it now?
    • Cuba in Fulton County, IL
    • Mormontown
    • German Heritage Towns
      • Belleville (German)
      • Maeystown
      • Mascoutah
      • Experiences
      • Route 66
    • Stories

Author Archives: helaine@illinois.edu

Coalfield Rest Area

Posted on July 28, 2020 by helaine@illinois.edu

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Alton UGRR

Posted on July 27, 2020 by helaine@illinois.edu

A brief tour of Alton’s Underground Railroad heritage is presented in the video below, with local historian, Dr. J. Eric Robinson.

 

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NPS UGRR

Posted on July 17, 2020 by helaine@illinois.edu

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