Relive the True Mother Road: The Edwards Trace – Lecture – October 17

Check out this fantastic program on Illinois and local history with Anna Sielaff as she discusses the critical route of The Edwards Trace! Join us in the Lewis & Clark State Historic Site Interpretive Center Theater on October 17 at 2 p.m. for “Relive the True Mother Road: The Edwards Trace.” The program is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For more information, contact us at 618-251-5811. Program description from the Illinois Humanities Road Scholar program: This presentation takes audience members on a journey back in time, to an era when Illinois was not yet a state but a vast landscape of prairie grass and fertile soil. The Edwards Trace is an ancient trail that dates back at least 3,000 years that went through Illinois marking the migratory path of various animal herds starting in Kaskaskia, Illinois to Peoria, Illinois. Native Americans used this trail to track the seasonal migrations of herds, leveraging it for hunting, trade, and warfare. Early… View Source