A Place for Everything

•July 24, 2024•

by Janet Roney

My German grandmother used to say, “A place for everything and everything in its place.” I try, but I am surprised and pleased when I find something of mine actually in its place. The MCCD was pleased when we found the Kaskaskia-Detroit Road and Hubbard’s Trace branches in their place, too.

In the early spring of 1999, the Moultrie County Corps of Discovery took several hikes in the woods along Jonathan Creek between the Masonic Home and Nelson Ford looking for evidence. On the first hike, we walked south from the IDNR parking cove at the top of the hill east of the Jonathan Creek bottom land (across the road from Reuben Chupp). After entering the IDNR woodland about ¼ mile south of the parking lot, we crossed a ravine and climbed another hill. 

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