Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Lt. Col. Clark and his troop of 170 volunteers passed near this spot, called Buffalo Gap, on July 1, 1778, on their way to a campsite some four miles north of here. The men were marching from Fort Massac to capture the British post at Kaskaskia. This attack and a later one at Vincennes, Indiana, prevented the British and their Indian allies from invading Kentucky. It also secured the Illinois Territory for the United States during the Revolutionary War.

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