Jackson County Digital Archives
The articles found in this section are relevant to Jackson County and to southern Illinois as a whole. The articles come from a variety of sources. Please click on the heading to access the content within.
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Devil's Bake Oven - Grand Tower, Il
Here is the most infamous house in Grand Tower and one of the most infamous houses in southern Illinois. The house's proximity to the ominous rocky outcropping known as devil's bake oven is the perfect recipe for a ghost story -- and so a ghost story there is!…
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Excerpt from "Historical Sketches of Jackson County, Illinois" by Edmund Newsome
Edmund Newsome, writing about Grand Tower in 1894 . . . . "In the year 1673, seven Frenchmen, in two birch-bark canoes, started from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and went down Fox River, then down Wisconsin River, and on the 7th of June they entered the Mississippi. The swift…
