| To the right is a map of Illinois with “Egypt” or “Little Egypt” depicted
in the shaded area at the bottom. The southern third
of Illinois was settled first as people from Kentucky, Tennessee and the
southeastern states came to Illinois looking for unclaimed land. Property near
the Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabash rivers, and their tributaries was settled
first by pioneers who used these rivers for travel and shipment of goods as the
primary means of transportation in the late 1700s and early 1800s before there
were roads or trains. |
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