Army Trail Road

Army Trail Road followed an Indian trail that began in Chicago and ran through DuPage, Kane, De Kalb, Boone, and Winnebago Counties to a Winnebago village at Beloit, Wisconsin. In August 1832, during the Black Hawk War, United States Army reinforcements from the Eastern Department used the trail. Their general, Winfield Scott, left Chicago ahead of the troops and took a different route to the war area. Delayed by cholera, his men did not reach the front until after Black Hawk’s defeat. The tracks left by heavy army wagons later formed a road for early settlers.

Addison, Illinois · United States