Talk:Alton, Illinois

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-Well, since it is considered a very haunted town, would anybody out there be willing to add some of the ghost stories and sightings to this article? QueenMab13 20:44, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Haunted?

Alton is haunted because it is cursed with BS. Alton tries to change it's image to SELL antiques, depressed housing, and seats in front of slot machines ...it can't change the FACTS of history. Whitewashing & Cutsiefying for tourist and real estate developers won't change HISTORY. Most large old houses aren't the yuppyfied description of "Queen Anne", they are Federal Style with late Victorian additions. (Elsah Illinois was never a "liquor soaked tug boaters retreat", that's BS from Alton Tourism, Elsah never had a large enough docksite nor the amount of barrooms, see Mark Twain for his description of Grafton Illinois, the real rowdy liquor soaked river town... and proud of it!) Back to the BS >>> The Piasa Bird (from French word Pallisa) was painted on the bluffs near Alton by Native Americans long before the Europeans arrived as warning that downward bound tribes were entering territory commanded by the Cahokians , it had nothing to do with Alton BS of some Indian Princess. AND E. Lovejoy was murdered by the mob of good CITIZENS of ALTON, and the good businessmen of Alton later ran a Civil War prison (less than 1 block from where Lovejoy was murdered) that abused Confederate soldiers in a manner to rival Andersonville. Up towards 3000 soldier/prisoners died of maltreatment and are shamefully buried in mass graves across from Alton on the Missouri shoreline (near old Dam 26 foundation, Sunflower Island) and in the Alton valley of Hop-Hollow on Rozier Street (cause the good Alton folks didn't want the bodies in their town). A "respected" businessman from ALTON named Buckmaster (no kidding) ran the prison and skimmed money that was to provide humantarian care for inmates. Prisoners "escaping" to the Missouri shore....duh... thats where the Union Hospital and graves were! Grafton was never founded to rival Alton, what BS!!... its over 16 miles UPSTREAM, was founded too early to rival Altons' heyday , and Grafton never even had a real railroad: real History was J. Gould wanted a railroad bridge to go thru Elsah as a ploy to push Eads Bridge in St. Louis. Elsah was tricked-up to rival St. Louis with a RR bridge across the Mississippi. Oh.... and ALTON hometown assassin James Earl Ray lived on 9th street in Alton, and murdered civil rights leader Martin Luther King jr. His former house was burned in the RACE RIOTS of 1969-70. Musician Miles Davis lived briefly in East Alton, NOT Alton. Today Alton has a high unemployment rate, high crime rate, and lots of murders. Haunted enough? Yes, haunted by BS whitewashing told to tourist, suckers on the Casino boats, and chumps from St. Louis looking for "quaint Victorian Queen Anne style" houses (with nightly gunshots in the neighborhood!). Rufus krebs 17:43, 15 March 2007 (UTC)R

I find it highly unlikely that the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was drafted in Alton. Is there an authoritative citation on this? NelsonLB 05:47, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Since Miles Davis was born in Alton, doesn't that mean he lived in Alton?NelsonLB 05:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC)