Cahokia, Illinois
Old Cahokia Courthouse in Cahokia Clair County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas Cahokia highlighted.svg Clair County and the state of Illinois.
Illinois in United States (US48).svg Location of Illinois in the United States Wikimedia Commons: Cahokia, Illinois Cahokia is a village in St.
Clair County, Illinois, United States.
Early European pioneer also titled Cahokia Mounds after the Illini.
The village of Cahokia is the home of momentous colonial and Federal-period buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Cahokia Courthouse (c 1740), in the French Colonial style, Church of the Holy Family (Cahokia) (c.
While the Europeans also titled the Cahokia Mounds site to the north after the Illini group, archeologists have determined that the earthwork mounds complex was assembled by the Mississippian culture, an earlier, potentially unrelated indigenous citizens .
The Cahokia Native Americans did not coalesce as a group and live in the Illinois region until closer to the time of French contact.
George Rogers Clark's conference with the Indians at Cahokia, unknown artist, from the National Archives and Records Administration The European association with Cahokia began over 300 years ago, with Father Pinet's mission in late 1696 to convert the Cahokian and Tamaroa Indians to Christianity.
During the next 100 years, Cahokia became one of the biggest French colonial suburbs in the Illinois Country.
Cahokia had turn into the center of a large region for trading Indian goods and furs.
In the following years, Cahokia suffered, mainly from the French loss in the French and Indian War in 1763.
The Odawa prestige Pontiac was assassinated by other Indians in or near Cahokia on April 20, 1769.
In 1778, amid the American Revolutionary War, George Rogers Clark set up a court in Cahokia, making Cahokia an autonomous town/city state even though it was part of the Province of Quebec.
Cahokia officially became part of the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
Soon after that, the 105 Cahokia "heads of homehold" pledged loyalty to the Continental Congress of the United States.
Later, Cahokia was titled the governmental center of county of St.
The Cahokia Courthouse acted as a United States territorial courthouse and a primary political center for the next 24 years.
Clair County was enlarged, Henry Harrison titled the Cahokia Courthouse the legal and governmental center of a sizeable region extending to the Canada US border.
Cahokia is positioned at 38 33 43 N 90 10 22 W. According to the 2010 census, Cahokia has a total region of 9.9 square miles (25.64 km2), of which 9.4 square miles (24.35 km2) (or 94.95%) is territory and 0.5 square miles (1.29 km2) (or 5.05%) is water. In the village, the populace was spread out with 33.4% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 16.9% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Cahokia is home to the St.
Cahokia Unit School District 187 operates enhance schools.
Village of Cahokia Clair County, Illinois, United States Clair County, Illinois - Populated places established in the 1690s - Illinois populated places on the Mississippi River - French colonial settlements of Upper Louisiana - 1699 establishments in the French colonial
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