| Located S Galena Trail Rd between W Eagle Point rd and W Fulton | Coordinates Lat N 41 59.461 " Lon W 89 36.165 " | |
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Indian Ambush Early in the Black Hawk War Indians concealed near this spot in Buffalo Grove, May 19, 1832, killed William Durley, a member of a six man detail carrying dispatches from Colonel James M. Strode at Galena to General Henry Atkinson at Dixon's Ferry. Durley's body now rests beneath this memorial. ERECTED BY THE POLO HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1963
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