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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Excerpt from "Historical Sketches of Jackson County, Illinois" by Edmund Newsome
"According to Mr. Ben Boone's account, Joseph French, with his family settled the place where Murphysboro now is in 1808. It seems that at some time afterwards, the land becarne the property of Dr. John Logan, who lived there many years, and there Gen. John A. Logan…
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Iron Furnaces at Grand Tower, Il
These now unassuming ruins grace the banks of the Mississippi more as a natural feature of the landscape and less as man-made creations. These furnaces, which total about 8, spat in the face of the Mississippi as its waters swelled well out of their banks (the surrounding…
