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From: "Marion Rice" <>
Subject: Re: [IA-IRISH] Re: Settlement of Iowa/Illinois
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 17:03:10 -0700
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Don,

Go to

http://www.bgt5.com/members/riceweb/genealogy/

and under the left side Polk County heading select Polk County. Takes a
while to download, this is a big file. This file contains info on the
early settlements in Iowa along the Mississippi river. The other files
may be of interest also. They concern events and people in Polk Co. and
Des Moines prior to 1880. These files can be saved to disk or searched
and read on line.

Marion Rice


----- Original Message -----
From: "Donkelly" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:10 PM
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Re: Settlement of Iowa/Illinois


> When my ancestors came from Ireland around 1700 or so, Iowa was still
wild
> Indian country and probably not open to settlement.
>
> So I guess my question is best addressed to the historians among you.
>
> When and where did Europeans (including Irish I think) first settle in
Iowa?
>
> According to my great grandmother Beebe as told from childhood
memories and
> stories she heard from her grandmothers, white people first settled as
> trappers on
> north shore of the big lake (probably lake superior) then crossed the
lake
> to settle now Illinois.
>
> Concurrently some white settlers were coming from the east through the
Ohio
> Valley
> (in Ox carts she said) who settled near Indian villages.
>
> The Indians tolerated the early settlers, even helped them, but that
was
> before greater influxes of whites came after 1750, and before any
major war
> between whites and Indians occurred in that area.
>
> Sometime after that they began moving across the river into Iowa,
started
> logging the land, and that was when really big trouble started with
the
> Indians.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Don Kelly


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