CHAPTER XII 

 INDIAN ISLAND 



INDIAN ISLAND FIRST SETTLED 



BY THE WHITES. SOLD TO A SAW MILL 



COMPANY WHERE THE FIRST STEAMBOAT 



WAS BUILT ON THE KANKAKEE 



Indian Island in an early day was known as 

 Aike's Island from the fact that there was a 

 white man by the name of A\ike Maskins who 

 hunted with the Indians and camped on this 

 island and whom I mentioned before, it was 

 better known as Indian Island and was for un- 

 told ages the hunting and camping grounds of 

 the Pottowattomie Indians. It is one of the old- 

 est inhabited islands on the Kankakee and 

 there was no Indian camp betv/een the head- 

 waters and the mouth of this historical river 

 that had a better fortification than Indian Island, 



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