Kellogg's trail, a wagon road connecting Galena with Peoria and other settlements in southern Illinois, was opened.

The evidence

• “There were mining settlements in the lead regions about Galena and Mineral Point. An Indian trail along the east bank of the Mississippi connected the former place with Fort Armstrong on Rock Island, and a wagon road, opened in 1827 and called Kellogg 's trail, connected Galena with Peoria and other settlements in southern Illinois. A mail coach traversed this road every day and was often crowded with people going to or from the mines, the regular freight outlet from which, however, was down the Mississippi.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/03-black-hawk-war.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 46 / book p. 37

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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