Transportation
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In 1825 Oliver W. Kellogg blazed a trail from Peoria to Galena that passed east of this site. On a spring day in the following year, John Boles marked a shorter route near this point. News of the Boles Trail spread, and it became a heavily traveled route for the next three years.
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