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- Title
Taming the Wet Prairie of East Central Illinois.
- Authors
Hannon, Bruce; Kashem, Shakil
- Abstract
In this paper, our focus is on the wetlands of Champaign County with extension into neighboring Piatt and Macon counties. We want to describe exactly how the early settlers managed to acquire and develop their lands, some of them realizing that once the land was drained, the wetlands were the most fertile in the county. Today these former wetlands demand the highest prices. The drainage actively began in the 1850s and has never stopped.
- Subjects
ILLINOIS; URBAN planning; URBAN land use; ARCHITECTURE &; community; HYDROGEOLOGICAL modeling; GEOLOGICAL modeling
- Publication
Illinois Geographer, 2017, Vol 59, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
2640-6195
- Publication type
Article