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After being heavily used in the early 19th century, the
Carpenter Park woodlands have regained sufficient quality to enable them to be listed as a State Natural Area. The woodland is mixed between wet-mesic forest in the Sangamon River floodplain, and dry-mesic upland forest atop a low
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in 1922 for $ 87,310. The property was renamed
Carpenter Park. Shortly after this accession, in 1926, U.S. Route 66 was designated to include a road, now called Peoria Road, adjacent to the park.
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and settlement. As an attractive wooded area within the prairie, this parcel of woodland quickly found an occupant. William
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The city of
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have been sighted. The park was listed as an
Illinois Natural Area in May 1979. Old U.S. Route 66 runs alongside the park to this day, and the park maintains a
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Carpenter family used the woodland in a manner typical of early 19th century United States frontier culture. William Carpenter established a small
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The park district also hopes to construct an improved trail with a railing along the
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In the forest preserve, the dry-mesic upland forest, which makes up more than one-half of the land area of the park, is dominated by the
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that covered most of central Illinois during early historic times. The local
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trees. In the sloping ravines that transition between the two biotic zones,
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Young, Chris (5 October 2009). "Carpenter Park loses 400-year-old tree".
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across the Sangamon River and built a water-powered
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425:"Carpenter Park Nature Preserve: Sangamon County"
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314:In 2007, Carpenter Park was designated as an
523:Tourist attractions in Springfield, Illinois
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538:1922 establishments in Illinois
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381:audubon.org
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189:War of 1812
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58:Coordinates
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341:References
290:cottonwood
71:89°37′36″W
68:39°52′03″N
390:April 25,
267:sassafras
243:black oak
239:white oak
232:sandstone
294:boxelder
282:sycamore
273:to feed
212:cornmeal
146:Illinois
47:Location
362:1 March
335:erosion
298:red oak
259:hickory
247:bur oak
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178:Indians
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168:History
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182:canoes
305:birds
204:ferry
392:2017
364:2016
271:mast
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