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Cahokia

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Cahokia (kəhō`kēə), village (1990 pop. 17,550), St. Clair co., SW Ill., a residential suburb of East St. Louis, on the Mississippi River; inc. 1927. The first permanent settlement in Illinois, Cahokia's name is derived from a local Native American group. The French established a mission in 1699 and a fur-trading post later. Cahokia was occupied by the British in 1765 and captured by the Americans under George Rogers Clark Clark, George Rogers, 1752–1818, American Revolutionary general, conqueror of the Old Northwest, b. near Charlottesville, Va.; brother of William Clark .
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 in 1778. It has several buildings dating from the 18th cent. Parks College, part of St. Louis Univ., is there. Nearby are the Cahokia Mounds Cahokia Mounds, approximately 85 Native American earthworks in Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, SW Ill., near East St. Louis; largest group of mounds N of Mexico. Monks' Mound, a rectangular, flat-topped earthwork, 100 ft (30.5 m) high with a 17-acre (6.
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In contrast, one will search in vain on United States stamps for depictions of rock art, the truly stupendous Mississippian Cahokia mounds, the Chaco Canyon Anasazi pueblo, Folsom or other Amerindian stone tools, or even the hallmark sites of America's colonial past at Williamsburg, St.
On October 25, the Spartans ended their disappointing season (four wins, five losses) with a 42-20 non-conference loss to the Cahokia High School Comanches of Cahokia, Illinois.
 
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