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OC His tory as They Lived It deserves to be placed within the rich context of Illinois Country historiography going back more than a century. . . . It brings together the fully ripened thoughts of a mature scholar at the very moment that students of the Illinois Country need such a book.OCOOCofrom the foreword by Carl J. Ekberg Settled in 1722, Prairie du Rocher was at the geographic center of a French colony in the Mississippi Valley, which also included other villages in what is now Illinois and Missouri: Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Fort de Chartres, St. Philippe, Ste. Genevieve, and St. Louis.a Located in an alluvial valley near towering limestone bluffs, which inspired the villageOCOs nameOCoFrench for OC prairie of the rockOCOOCo Prairie du Rocher is the only one of the seven French colonial villages that still exists today as a small compact community. The village of Prairie du Rocher endured governance by France, Great Britain, Virginia, and the Illinois territory before Illinois became a state in 1818. Despite these changes, the villagers persisted in maintaining the community and its values. Margaret Kimball Brown looks at one of the oldest towns in the region through the lenses o

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Author

Margaret Kimball Brown; Carl J. Ekberg

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press,

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781306452496

Category

history

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14