Black Hawks Outpost
August 2 1832 twenty
picked Sacs were station-
ed here to decoy the US
Army northward and per-
mit the Indian main body
with women and children
to escape across the riv-
er. Fourteen of the out-
post were shot here wh-
ile trying to surrender.
In 1846 LeGrand Sterling
found twelve human skel-
etons near here.
No 5 CVP 1930 S
Marker is on County Highway UU 0.8 miles west of Orlando Road, on the left when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
