House raising in pioneer days. The diorama is displayed in the Museum at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.1680 they built Fort Crevecoeur on the left bank. Of the Illinois River below where Peoria would one day stand. The fort was abandoned before spring and in 1682 La Salle and Tonti built another at Starved Rock.

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