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I take this opportunity to thank him for his kind, 

 intelligent interest in this work. 



I hope those who read this chapter with any interest 

 will watch for all these markers and monuments which 

 aim to link the present with the vanishing past, in pass- 

 ing by them. 



WARSAW, ILLINOIS - FORT EDWARDS : There is a tall 

 stone shaft on the high blufif point at the upper end of 

 Warsaw, Illinois. 



From our former agent in Warsaw, Mr. W. J. Clip- 

 pert, I secured these facts. 



This shaft of Bedford stone, fifty-four feet in height, 

 was erected by the state and some local subscriptions in 

 September, 1914, to commemorate the establishment of 

 Fort Edwards, built by Major Zachary Taylor and the 

 third United States infantry in September, 1814. 



From this blufif, directly across from the mouth of 

 the Des Moines river and only four miles from the 

 foot of the lower rapids, the movements of indians, go- 

 ing to, or returning from their great hunting grounds, 

 could be easily watched and local traders protected. 



After Fort Armstrong and Fort Crawford were built, 

 Fort Edwards was not needed and in 1824 it was aban- 

 doned. 



GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK : On a high projecting 



point of one of the bluffs in Riverside park at the north 

 end of Quincy, Illinois, there stands a noble statue of 

 General George Rogers Clark of Louisville, Kentucky; 

 erected by the state of Illinois to honor the memory of 

 this remarkable man whose services, sufferings and 

 sacrifices during the revolution, added to the union that 

 vast territory lying between the Ohio river, the Great 

 Lakes, the Mississippi river and the Allegheny moun- 

 tains. 



