Cairo History Links
Cairo History Links
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CAIRO HISTORY
LINKS OF INTEREST |
Whether you are a native "Cairoite", a welcome "immigrant", or just plain interested in the history of Cairo, the links below will provide you with a sampling of "the good, the bad, and the ugly"...
Lewis and Clark at the Confluence of America
In the Shadow of the New Madrid Fault
How Southern Illinois Came to be Known as Little Egypt
Mark Twain's Mississippi River
A View of Cairo by Charles Dickens (3rd Page of Article)
Illinois Folk Song - "Goin' Down to Cairo"
Southernmost Illinois History - Civil War Era
More on Cairo's Role During the Civil War
New Book - "Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo"
Southernmost Illinois History - Ulysses S. Grant Slept Here
U.S.S. CAIRO (Union Ironclad Gunboat, City Class)
Illinois History Teacher - African-Americans 1863-1900
The North Starts in Cairo; Hattie Kendrick
Historic Cairo from the Pilot Light 2000 Web Site
Southernmost Illinois History - Old Cairo Postcards
Southernmost Illinois History - Cairo U.S. Custom House
SCC Local History Project - Alexander County
Let My People Go - Preston Ewing Jr. & Jan Peterson Roddy
Illinois Times - Cairo Deserves Better
Cairo: A City Caught between the Tides - New Video
Darrel Dexter Illuminates Cairo's Past
Alexander County Genealogy Trails
The Cairo Experience: Civil Rights Litigation in a Racial Powder Keg
Music CD by Stace England
Listen To/Buy CD
View CD Art Work
Review of the CD
