Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 5
Land area (2000): 0.108458 sq. miles (0.280905 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.108458 sq. miles (0.280905 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39129
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.921395 N, 89.916467 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Kaskaskia
Wikipedia
The Kaskaskia were an indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. They were one of about a dozen cognate tribes that made up the Illiniwek Confederation, also called the Illinois Confederation. Their longstanding homeland was in the Great Lakes region. Their first contact with Europeans reportedly occurred near present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1667 at a Jesuit mission station.
Usage examples of "kaskaskia".
The surprise and conquest of Cahokia by Bowman and his men was like that of Kaskaskia.
And it was Governor Hamilton’s design to march upon Kaskaskia and Cahokia and sweep over Kentucky.
A subtle change had come upon Kaskaskia with the new blood which was flowing into it: we passed Cahokia, full of memories to the drummer boy whom she loved.
Beyond that you may perhaps be able to engage Indians to bring letters for the government to Cahokia or Kaskaskia on promising that they shall there receive such special compensation as you shall have stipulated with them.
With 200 frontiersmen, he set out in flatboats down the Ohio River for Kaskaskia, an old French settlement ruled by the English with 250 houses and a stone fort, reached the town on July 4 and took it without firing a shot.