This weekend, I went to visit my sister and her family.  They live in O’Fallon, Illinois.  While I was there, I decided to take a day trip to Pike County, Illinois, where my Cadwell ancestors lived from about 1830 – 1846, when they came to Navarro County, Texas.

Pike County is only about 100 miles northwest of O’Fallon through rural southern Illinois – a very nice drive.

 

 

Daniel Cadwell and his family settled in Griggsville, Illinois about 1830.  Daniel operated the first trading post in the area.  The original building was a log cabin; over the years, it’s modernized.

 

And then there were very interesting barns.