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Everything is named after the Devil in Illinois. I’m pretty sure our slogan is The Devils Butthole

Another note, don't miss getting BBQ in Tamms on Labor Day weekend (if they still do it), I've never had better BBQ anywhere!!

Our family farm is located not far from the Rock Springs church. That church building was moved sometime in the 80's, It used to be in front of and across the creek from my uncles house, which used to be the Rock Springs Hollow school, he converted it to his house when I was probably 8 years old or so, maybe 1966-ish. When I was a kid my uncle would take us to the little grocery store that was in Thebes then. Up on the hill in Thebes is a Baptist Church, I went to a lot of services there. We used to go and play in the creek at Rock Springs, you should go there it's very pretty, it's only a few miles from the Thebes bridge. I've lived in Algonquin Il now for 40 years, having moved from Anna IL to go to college in Chicago in 1976 but much of my family remains in Southern IL.

Nice! Have you done Dixon Springs yet? I only made my way there a few months ago. Lots of snakes though. Lots.

I was a teenager living in Lawton during the sixties. I spent a lot of time in the mountains. I climbed Mt. Scott a couple of times. Back then there wasn't a curfew on Mt. Scott and we could see the headlights on the access road at night from our house in Lawton. It's an amazing place. Lots of nights camping there.

Really interesting…. Thank You

I drove a sedan back there. I do not recommend that! lol It was tricky but we made it in and out. Worth it!

Hey. Love your videos.

In addition to the herds of bison, there's a large herd of wild longhorn cattle, and a prairie dog town! To the east is Mount Scott, I think the second tallest mountain in the state, which you can drive up with a small parking area at the top. If you live in OKC it's just an hour and a half drive. And yeah, there's so many people here that have never been much less even heard of it.

Ask yourself the question has anybody digged here approximately 30-40 feet deep?

He's like confused about the burn marks on the older cypress trees and whatnot. But he knows nothing about meltology and our real history.not his-story but the real story

Bait and switch picture.

I was excited to stumble onto this video as I was just talking with my mother about taking her to visit there again soon. I can provide some history on this cave and the dam built there. My mother lived on that land with her family in the decades prior to WW2. If you walk up to the top of that hill on the north side, that's where my grandfather built the Conner family home. He and his brother farmed that land on the Current River branch nearby. Eugene Conner and my grandmother Nellie raised 14 children there; my mother and one of her sisters are still living in West Plains, MO west of that area now. Her older brothers built that dam and power station (I don't know the correct terminology for that) to pump water up the hill to the house. The family relocated from there in the mid 1940's. The concrete dam that is left at the mouth of the cave isn't really visually appealing, I get that. But, it's definitely a neat perspective to think about someone owning this land and making it work for their needs at that time, in such a remote area of Missouri. I'm really excited to share this with my now 94 year old mother, she'll really appreciate this video! Love it, thank you!

Don´t you need to be careful there to not step on a rattler? Beautiful scenery!

One of my favorite places. We observed the 2017 solar eclipse there. I like to camp at Red Bud in the summer and swim and hike all through there.

Now I wanna visit there

Where is that shot of you walking on the dried up mud shown in the thumbnail? Please tell me that was not clickbait.

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We drove theough that area last week on the way to Arkansas. I was surprised to see cypress trees in the swamps on the side of the highway. Never knew they were that far north.

The Ohio River, as we know it, did not exist before the last ice age. What was the ancestral Ohio River actually flowed Northeast to where Pittsburgh is now located, where it joined the Monongahela River. The Mon flowed north, up what is now the Beaver River Valley and emptied into the St. Lawrence River, as Lake Erie did not exist either at that time. The glaciation blocked the northern flow of the Mon, creating a giant lake that covered much of Northern West Virginia and Southwestern PA. Where Pittsburgh is now was under 500 feet of water. The water kept backing up the ancestral Ohio River until it breached lower hills causing the flow to reverse from Northeast to the current Southwest direction. Geologists think as the lower hills were breached, it caused a very quick draining of "Lake Monongahela" and the current Monongahela, Allegheny. and Ohio River Valleys were cut down through the rock very quickly due to the massive volume of water being released. The Snake River Canyon out west was also formed in the same quick way.

That was awesome

My mat. GP from Mounds.

That was interesting. Traveled over that area on the highways for years and didn’t know

Enjoyed the whole video all the way from Alabama.

And another great video. Thank you very much. Art from Ohio

Great video, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you very much. Art from Ohio

There's a couple other ancient river beds like this. One near Portsmouth, Ohio and another near Huntington, West Virginia.

Dam it off and make the river go the old way, the proper way.

Southern Illinois is a beautiful , fascinating area to explore. Thanks for the lessons about the Cache river area. Ive seen Herron pond. But never the Cache River valley

Thank you

Looks like old Indian burial mounds and ground...my Brother has a mound burial ground on his land.

I have lived all my home life in western Kentucky near the Ohio river. I worked on the rivers for 50 Years of which 46 as a towboat captain. I have passed the Cache river often on the upper Mississippi above Cairo and on the Ohio river above Cairo and never knew the history behind it. Thanks for sharing this information on the video, it's very interesting 👏

Meh, till it up plant crops.

Mr. PASHKE might still be teaching in TEXAS, unless that One is another Individual.

I had OHIO HISTORY, way back in 1971, under Mr. PASHKE, at Buchanan Junior High,

I have a cypress tree in my back yard and a bunch of knees. I’m on the west coast of central Florida, two minutes from the beach

You better poke around before climbing in those holes, poisonous snakes!

Great video. Thanks

Beautiful video. I've never heard of this area. As someone from Cincinnati I've always been impressed by the age of the Ohio river and how long its really been around. There are fossil parks in the surrounding area of Cincy and its just so interesting how old this land we are on is.

Is this anywhere near snake road?

My grandfather used to tell me about walking across the Ohio river before the dams.

Raccoons would love those trees to nap in!

I think Amarillo beat you to your title. Maybe, very small and unimpressive canyon in Illinois.

That was so pretty and very interesting to hear about. I will definitely share this with friends. ❤

Are there bears that live in the area? Those Cypress trees look like they would be good hibernation spots.

Thank you sir for taking us thru a dry Ohio swamp. It was very vert entertaining. True blessing.

Thank you

I visited the area while traveling to Cape Girardeau with my son for several AAU basketball tournaments and was very intrigued by the landscape. We live upriver in Louisville. This was very informative and I hope to return with time to explore myself soon.

I used to go arrowhead hunting in the Cache back in the 80s.

I was at Treasure Lake Job Corp in the 90's which is on the back end of Charon's Gardens. We used to hike all over the area and often to the boulder fields we just called "the caves".