I hate to beat a dead horse but I believe the location of Kaskaskia has
changed several times, more or less what Jon said, and the spot where 9
souls lived in 2000 has no bearing on the site of the original state
capitol. There is a trivia question which asks what state the first capitol
of Illinois is located in and the answer is Missouri.
Fortunately the second capitol location has remained in a stable location as
has the third and the fourth [two locations in Springfield, both of which
still exist].
On 1/10/07, Laurel <laurel(a)laureltreat.com> wrote:
One of the lines I research had some early settlers living in
Kaskaskia. They were connected to the Jarot family of Cahokia. I think
that the Jarot's had some kind of mill in Kaskaskia before 1820. I have
some copies of letters that I am transcribing between family members
when some of them lived in Kaskaskia around 1817. Actually they did a
lot of traveling back and forth and I had always assumed that Kaskaskia
was closer to Cahokia than it is. Anyway, according to Wikipedia, the
flood that caused the channel change and moved part of Kaskaskia to the
MO side was in 1881. There were 9 people still living there in 2000.
Laurel Treat
Jon Musgrave wrote:
>The original village of Kaskaskia where our state capitol was first
located
>did fall into the Mississippi River in the late 19th Century. Kaskaskia
>Island is that part of Illinois that lays west of the Mississippi through
>originally it lay on the west side of the Kaskaskia River and the
>Mississippi ran on the west side. The church with the Liberty Bell of the
>West is still on the island, though everything on the island did suffer
from
>the 1993 flood.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Jon Musgrave
>IllinoisHistory.com
>