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Kaskaskia

American  
[kuhs-kas-kee-uh] / kəsˈkæs ki ə /

noun

  1. a river in E central Illinois, flowing SW to the Mississippi River. 320 miles (515 km) long.


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They attended Centralia Community College, now known as Kaskaskia College, in Centralia, Illinois, for two years.

From Washington Times • Apr. 4, 2019

The students will wrap up their excavations at Fort Kaskaskia on Monday and Tuesday, then move to Miller Grove, a freed slave community in Pope County.

From Washington Times • Jun. 23, 2018

The re-enactors portrayed actual members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which stopped at Fort Kaskaskia and recruited additional men from the fort.

From Washington Times • Jun. 23, 2018

He was a persuasive door-to-door magazine salesman, stoked the furnace and rang the bell at the Christ Episcopal Church, and dived for mussels in the Kaskaskia River every summer.

From Time Magazine Archive

These conquests by Shelby in the South, coupled with those of Clark at Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes, were as important in both immediate and future results as any that illumine the pages of the Revolution.

From Stories of Old Kentucky by Purcell, Martha Grassham