Spoon River
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The Spoon River is a tributary of the Illinois River, approximately 160 miles (257 km) long in northwestern Illinois in the United States. The river drains largely agricultural prairie country between Peoria and Galesburg. The river is noted for giving its name to the fictional Illinois town in the 1916 poetry work Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, who was from Lewistown, which is near the river.
It rises in two short forks near Kewanee in southern Bureau County. The East and West forks join in northern Stark County, approximately 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Kewanee, and the combined stream meanders south and southwest through rural Stark, Knox and Fulton counties. The lower portion of the river passes through a scenic region of hills in Fulton County, and passes approximately 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Lewistown. The river joins the Illinois from the west opposite Havana, approximately 40 miles (64 km) downstream and southwest of Peoria.
[edit] External links
- Historic Peoria: The Spoon River
- Prairie Rivers Network
- Spoon River Anthology at Bartleby.com
- Spoon River Anthology, available at Project Gutenberg.
- "Spoon River Anthology": the definitive online edition
- Where Darkness Falls Early on the Fields: A New Cycle of Spoon River Poems
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