Promised Land
- Promised Land Roald Tweet 2:52
This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. If there is a rich heart of the heart of the Illinois prairie, it would be Henry County just south of here. In the first decade of its opening to settlement, the county’s rich black soil attracted six separate colonizing groups. It’s as if every potential Eastern Moses in the 1830s drew lines across the Appalachian wilderness, all of which converged on the same Promised Land—Henry County.
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