Defying Gravity
A little after we left Cahokia on Saturday, we headed to the St. Louis to visit the state of Missouri’s most famous landmark – the St. Louis Gateway Arch, also called the “Gateway to the West” because of its place in history as the spot where the first expedition to the Western part of the […]
Posted at 12:38 am on November 23, 2009 | 5 comments | Filed Under: adventures, Fun, Observations | Tagged: Gateway arch, Jefferson Memorial, Mississippi River, St. Louis, St. Louis Arch | read on
Cahokia
Occupying over 2,200 acres of land space near Collinsville, Illinois, is an old Native-American settlement called Cahokia. It was so named after a tribe of indigenous and ingenuous native people who occupied the spot thousands of years ago and built a city that was at a time bigger than the city of London. Today, due […]
Posted at 7:30 pm on November 21, 2009 | 2 comments | Filed Under: adventures, Art, Observations | Tagged: Archeology, Cahokia, Cahokia Mounds, Mississippians, Museum, Native American History Unesco Heritage Sites, Prehistory, World Heritage Sites | read on
