|
To enter an event
click on the Event Listings button on the Calendar of Events Page
For questions, events or
comments use the following email address:
webmaster
or
Karen Poulson, Chair
Illinois Archaeological Awareness Month for more information.
klpoulson@netzero.com
Places of the Past (IAAA)
|
| |
|
|
>List of Organizations and Institutions
in Illinois that are considered 'Places of Interest'.
(Click on the name for more information)
|
-
Contact
Information for 'Places
of Interest'
-
-
Location
The Art Institute of Chicago,
Michigan Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois
Further Information
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/current.html
Back to
top
▼
Logan Museum of
Anthropology
700 College Street
Beloit, Wisconsin, 53511
Contact:
Sara Pfannkuche, 815-543-9459 or
sara@pfannkuche.com
-
-
Back to top
▼
-
Briscoe Mounds
Location: Front Street, Channahon, IL (I-55 Bluff Road exit, then south
via the frontage road towards Channahon)
EventNo specific event. This late
prehistoric mound and village site, situated along the western side of the Des
Plaines River, is affiliated with the Langford tradition of the Upper
Mississippian, dating to around A.D. 1200-1500. Preservation of the site, owned
by the State of Illinois, is crucial. Contact
-
www.channahon.org/parks.htm
-
Back to top
▼
-
Event:
Plus: Tour excavation areas, listen to a storyteller, watch a film on Cahokia
Mounds, throw spears with an atlatl, play the chunkey game, discover legends of
the past.
Food and refreshments sponsored by Cahokia Archaeological Society and Eckert's
Country Store, Resturant and Garden Center with support from the Cahokia Mounds
Volunteers, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site and Cahokia Mounds Museum
Society.
Location
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is just eight miles from downtown St. Louis,
Missouri in Collinsville, Illinois off Interstates 55/70 and 255 and Illinois
Route 111 on Collinsville Road.
Contact
http://www.cahokiamounds.com
Bill Iseminger,
cahokiamounds@ezl.com
-
Phone: 618-346-5161
Back to top
▼
-
-
- Contact
- Mr. Lynn Stephens, President
-
Central Wabash Archaeology Chapter
- 10531 East 500th Avenue
- Phone:
- 618-546-1180
- Email:
-
3278@frsb.net
-
▼
North Shore of Arsenal Island
Rock Island, IL
(309) 764-8590
www.davenporthouse.org
Back
to top
▼
Dickson Mounds Museum
http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismsites/dickson/
Back
to top
▼
Location:
Downers Grove Park District Museum
831 Maple Avenue
Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
Contact:
Robert
Stelton, 630-739-7255.Back
to top
▼
LocationEarly American Museum 600
North Lombard St. Route 47 Mahomet
IL 61853- Contact:
- Barbara Oehlschlaeger-Garvey
- Curator
- Early American Museum
- 600 N. Lombard, Route 47
- Mahomet,
IL 61853
- 217-586-2612
- FAX 217-586-3491
-
early@earlyamericanmuseum.org
-
www.earlyamericanmuseum.org
Return
to top
▼
Contact:
Brenda Beck
President, East Central Illinois Archaeological Society
3002 East Oaks Road
Urbana, Illinois, 61802
Whatsunderneath@aol.com
return
to top
▼
Location
Fairview Heights Public Library
10017 Bunkum Rd
Fairview Heights,
IL
Contact
-
Deborah Owen
-
Director
-
Fairview Heights Public Library
-
10017 Bunkum Rd
Fairview Heights, IL 62208-1703
Phone: 618 489-2070
Fax: 618 489-2079
Email: debbieo@lcls.org
return
to top
▼
Illinois and Michigan Canal National
Heritage Corridor
Event
No specific event. Portions
of the canal, lift locks, aqueducts and dams affiliated with the 97 mile long
canal, completed in 1848. The canal was vital in the development of Chicago as a
commercial and industrial center which led to explosive growth in northeastern
Illinois.
ContactIllinois and Michigan Canal
National Heritage Corridor
402 Ottawa Street (Visitor Center)
Morris, IL
60450
815-942-0796
-
www.canalcor.org
www.nps.gov.ilmi
http://imcanal.lewisu.edu
http://dnr.state.il.us/lands/landmgt/parks/i&m/main.htm
return to top
▼
Illinois State Museum
Location
Illinois State Museum
502 S. Spring Street (corner of Spring and Edwards
Streets)
Springfield, IL
- Contact:
For more information, please call Jennifer Kuehner at
217-782-5993. TTY 217-782-9175. The Museum is located at 502 S.
Spring St. (the corner of Spring and Edwards Streets) in
Springfield, and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through
Saturday, noon to 5:00 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Parking is
available nearby, and the building is accessible to individuals with
disabilities.
education@museum.state.il.us
return to top
▼
Illinois Waterway Visitor Center.
Location
Illinois Waterway Visitor Center at Starved Rock
Lock and Dam
950 N. 27th Road
Ottawa, IL 61350
- Contact:
Kathy Higdon
Park Ranger
US Army Corps of Engineers
Illinois Waterway Visitor Center
950 N. 27th Road
Ottawa, IL 61350
815-667-4054
FAX 815-667-5954
Kathy.L.Higdon@mvr02.usace.army.mil
return to top
▼
Joliet Iron Works Historic Site
Time: 8am-8pm everyday
Location:
Columbia Street, just east of Rte. 53 (Scott St.) and
east of
the Ruby St. Bridge, Joliet, IL
815-727-8700
Event
No specific event.
Archaeological investigations at this important industrial site,
acquired by the Forest Preserve District of Will County in the 1990s,
showed that the foundations of the 19th-century blast furnaces and
related facilities are still present. This site has a 1 mile self guided
tour through exhibits explaining the iron making process and the people
who worked there. It is also the access point for the 11.4 mile I & M
Canal Trail.
return to top
▼
The Kankakee County Museum
www.kankakeecountymuseum.com
Location
801 South Eighth
Avenue
Kankakee, IL 60901
Contact:
815-932-5279 or
email museum@daily-journal.com
Exhibit:
Permanent exhibit featuring Paleo-Indian to Historic
artifacts from the Kankakee area with a focus on the nearby Windrose site.
return to top
▼
Location
Lewis and Clark State Historic Site1 Lewis and Clark Trail
Hartford, IL
For
more information, please call:
Cindy Upchurch, Asst. Site Director, (618)251-5811
return to top
▼
Lincoln's New Salem State
Historic Site
Location
Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site
RR1
Box 244a
Petersburg, IL
618-632-4000
http://www.lincolnsnewsalem.com/
return to top
▼
Location:
Logan Museum of Anthropology
700 College Street
Beloit, Wisconsin, 53511
The Logan Museum of Anthropology, founded in 1893, is located on the
Beloit College campus, six blocks from the Illinois state line in Beloit,
Wisconsin. The Logan Museum sponsors a regular series of public programs
as well as changing and permanent exhibits. For a calendar of events and
exhibits, please see
Logan Museum of Anthropology
Contact: Karla Wheeler, Curator of Education
608-363-2678 or
wheelerk@beloit.edu
-
-
McLean County Museum of
History
McLean
County Historical Society
200 N.
Main Street
Bloomington IL 61701.
return to top
▼
Midewin
National TallGrass Prairie
http://www.fs.fed.us/mntp/
return to top
▼
-
Location: Corner of Lindell
and DeBaliviere, Southwestern Bell Room, Missouri History Museum Forest
Park, St. Louis, MO.
Event: Dr. Terry Martin of
the Illinois State Museum will present a lecture entitled:
"Archaeological Investigations at New Philadelphia, a Multi-Racial
Agricultural Community in West Central Illinois." Beginning in the
summer of 2002, the University of Maryland in cooperation with the
University of Illinois, the Illinois State Museum, the University of
Central Florida, and the New Philadelphia Association embarked on a
long-term project to locate, document, and study the growth and eventual
demise of a town once known as New Philadelphia, Illinois. New
Philadelphia is the earliest known town founded and registered in the
state by an African American in the antebellum United States. This event
is free and open to the public and is part of the Mound City Archaeology
Lecture Series co-sponsored by the Mound City Archaeological Society.
Contact:
Barney Bradshaw, Special Events Coordinator, Missouri Historical
Society. 314-454-3135.
return to top
▼
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
Contact:
- Janice Klein
- Director
- Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
-
Phone: 847 492-8520
- Fax: 847 475-0911
- Email:
jklein@kendall.edu
-
www.mitchellmuseum.org
-
Back to top
▼
Northern
Illinois University Anthroplogy Museum
http://www.niu.edu/anthro_museum/
return to top
▼
Oakwood Mound
Location:
Oakwood Cemetery, opposite the intersection of Walnut Street and U.S.
30, Joliet, Illinois
EventNo specific event. This low,
broad burial mound is located in Oakwood Cemetery, Joliet, opposite the
intersection of Walnut Street and U.S. 30. The Woodland period mound may be a
little older than the Briscoe Mound.
return to top
▼
Location
O'Fallon Public Library
120 Civic Plaza
O'Fallon, IL, 62269
Contact
- Phone: 618-632-3783
return to top
▼
-
Old House Society
Location: Old House Society
Education Center, 904 N. Linden Street, Bloomington, Illinois, 61701.
Event: Archaeological
Investigations at te 1882 Charles E. Cantine Home Site. Beginning
September 2005 and lasting 1 to 2 years, we will be excavating areas of
interest throughout the yard including well, privy, cistern, and several
small structures which may include a carriage house or small barn.
Contact:
-
director@oldhousesociety.org
www.oldhousesociety.org
-
return to top
▼
University of Chicago
1155 East 58th
Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-9507
CONTACT Information : Carole Krucoff
Museum Education Department
-
return to top
▼
return to top
▼
-
Pekin Public Library
Location: Community Room,
Pekin Public Library, 301 S. Fourth Street, Pekin, Illinois, 61554
Event:
Free program for
adults and children age 9 and above on archaeological methods and their
application at New Philadelphia, Illinois.
Contact:
-
Mary Alyce Hofsess
-
Head of Children's Services
-
309-347-7111 ext. 224
-
mhofsess@pekin.net
return to top
▼
www.btpd.org
Vic Johnson and Bob Simpsom, Perry Farm Living History Advisory
Committee
815-933-9905 or
vince@btpd.org
return to top
▼
Quad
Cities Archaeological Society
Future programs:
Location
Meets
at the Tom-Tom Room, Blackhawk State Park; 7:30 p.m. the last Tuesday
of the month.
Contact:
Ferrel Anderson
1923 E. 13th Street
Davenport, IA 52803
(563) 324-0257
return to top
▼
Quincy Museum
(www.hannibal.net/visit/quincymuseum /)
Location:
1601 Maine St.
Quincy, IL
(217) 224-7669
return to top
▼
3939 Nearing Lane
Decatur, IL
(217) 423-7708
www.maconcountyconservation.org
return to top
▼
www.fpdcc.com
-
Location:
-
Sand Ridge Nature
Center
-
15891 Paxton Avenue
-
South Holland,
Illinois
-
708-868-0606
-
Back to top
▼
-
Location: Powers-Walker
House, McHenry County Conservation District, Glacial Park, 6316 Harts
Road, Ringwood, Illinois
Event: Sauk Trail Chapter
of the IAAA will have a demonstration day at the Powers-Walker House.
Contact:
Sara Pfannkuche
President, Sauk Trail
Chapter
Sara Pfannkuche, 815-543-9459 or
sara@pfannkuche.com
return to top
▼
Shawnee National Forest
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/shawnee
return to top
▼
Marilyn Rasmusen
mrasmusen@prairienet.com
return to top
▼
Contact:
Bob Nale
SSAS Archaeological Advisor
archnale@clickbang.com
Back to top
▼
-
LocationField Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore
Dr. Chicago, IL 60605 -
- Contact:
-
Jihad Muhammad
- Executive Director
- The African
Scientific Research Institute
- 412 South Peoria St.
-
University of Illinois (MC347)
- Chicago, IL 60607
-
312-355-3229
-
arisymposium@yahoo.com
-
jihadm@uic.edu
www.uic.edu/orgs/asri
return to top
▼
-
-
The New
Philadelphia Archaeology Project and Field School
Contact:
Chris Fennell
cfennell@uiuc
-
Back to top
▼
The Oriental Institute
Contact:
Carole Krucoff
Head of Public and Museum Education
Oriental Institute
University of Chicago
1155 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-9507
Back to top
▼
-
- Contact:
Ron Deiss,
ronald.w.deiss@mvr02.usace.army.mil
Back to top
▼
|
