Freedom Twp., Carroll County to
Elizabeth, Jo Daviess County

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Note: Although Poole’s primary interest on this map is the 1833 Peoria – Galena State Coach Road surveyed by Levi Warner, he has penciled in a road leading from Gratiot’s Grove to Galena. The Gratiot’s Grove road probably was a remnant of an early Kellogg alignment and was recorded on the 1833 map of Illinois published in Tanner’s Universal Atlas, (published in Philadelphia, 1833, and reprinted by the Illinois State Historical Library in 1968). Gratiot’s Grove (in present day Wisconsin) was an important early settlement in Wisconsin’s Shullsburg mining area. J.P. and Henry Gratiot bought their land at the Grove from the Winnebago Indians in 1829, and their mining and smelting facilities were in full operation prior to the Black Hawk War.

Commentary and notes by Patricia L. Goitein, Editor, Galena Trail Newsletter