From: "Rosanne Lewis" <[email protected]> Subject: [ILSALINE-L] Eagle, Ill I'm new to this site and found it because I'm researching my family. My grandmother as well as her sister and two brothers were born in Eagle in Cottage Township, Ill. back in the late 1800's. Can anyone tell me about this town? Its location? Its history? Its Indian heritage? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rosanne of Jax, Fla. hi, From <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/dennisvcarter1/myhomepage/heritage.html">Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the Southeast 44 Counties</A> (huge web page takes more than a minute to open if your Internet connection is an old fashioned dial up): Eagle-, cf Eagle Mountain; formerly L'Aigle; listed in RM56 but not 58 (PO 14Feb1901-20Apr1929) RFD Herod Eagle Mountain-, cf Eagle; same as Prospect Hill; see 1887 Gallatin-Saline hist. 149) The - after the place name indicates you won't find it listed on most current maps... happy hunting dennis "Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all are gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cockcrow." -- G M Trevelyan