Illinois’ Horseshoe Lake: Largemouth Bass, Indian Mound and Buried Treasure
A river bend long abandoned by the meandering Mississippi River is the central feature of Horseshoe Lake State Park, located a few miles north of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. The Mississippian population that was part of the Cahokia complex created not just a series of burial and ceremonial mounds at the city center between ...