Illinois Frontier Town...
... where black and white Americans lived together peacefully on the antebellum Illinois frontier.

Contacts:
Philip Bradshaw, President, NPA Griggsville, IL 62340

Carol McCartney, Secretary, NPA
E-mail: jeffm@adams.net

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Survey Members Discussing the Next Step

 

The Eyes Have It
Student volunteers walk plowed area on New Philadelphia town site, marking artificants they discover with colored flags. Supervisors and other volunteers follow behind them, bagging and cataloguing the artifacts. The completed report from this survey can be seen at New Philadelphia Project Field Walkover Survey .