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Early in the Black Hawk War, Indians concealed near this spot in Buffalo Grove killed William Durley on May 19, 1832, while he was part of a six-man detail carrying dispatches from Colonel James M. Strode at Galena to General Henry Atkinson at Dixon's Ferry. Durley's body now rests beneath this memorial.
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