Site of Gurdon Hubbard Trail, Dixie Highway, milestone markers - Crete, IL - Milestones on Waymarking.com

An original Hubbard Trail milestone #197, with adjacent historical marker and sign.

Marker text:

Site of
GURDON HUBBARD TRAIL
CHICAGO TO DANVILLE
1820
Erected by
Will County Centennial Committee
1936

Sign text:

HISTORIC ROUTE
DH
DIXIE HIGHWAY

From another related marker at: (visit link)

"The Dixie Highway follows one of the oldest and most historic Illinois trails. Native Americans and trapper-traders used a path worn by animals along the eastern Illinois border. In the 1820s, Gurdon Saltenstall Hubbard established trading posts along the route, which is identified as Hubbard’s Trace and Vincennes Trail on old maps. In 1835, the Illinois General Assembly ordered a state road to be established and mile markers placed thereon."

Condition: Worn Date placed: 01/01/1834 Material: Stone Inscription: The milestone itself is too weathered to be readable. Name of road: originally Gurdon Hubbard Trail; later Dixie Highway; now IL Route 1

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