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Red Hills State Park is an Illinois state park on in Lawrence County, Illinois, United States. The park sits at an elevation of . Red Hills State Park is open for year-round recreation including boating, fishing, hunting, hiking and various winter sports.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Red Hills State Park )〕 The park includes a restaurant which is open year-round and has banquet facilities.〔 ==History== Red Hills State Park is in southeastern Illinois in Lawrence County. The county borders the state of Indiana to the east. This part of Illinois was once part of the Vincennes Tract, a tract of land that was ceded to the United States of America in 1795 by Native Americans. The Natives lost a series of battles to General Anthony Wayne. The treaty was signed in Greenville. The Treaty of Greeneville was signed by a number of tribes known as the Western Confederacy. The tribes in the confederacy included the Wyandot, Lenape, Shawnee, Odawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Miami, Wea, Kickapoo and Kaskaskia.〔 The natives agreed to relinquish their claim to land that was north of the Ohio River and east of an established line. That line passes through what is now Red Hills State Park.〔 The area grew following a series of wars and treaties and came to be known as the Northwest Territory and comprised what is now the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. Following the forced removal of the Native Americans, the area was open to settlement by Euro-American settlers from the original Thirteen Colonies. The land that is now Red Hills State Park was divided by an old wagon road known as Old Cahokia Trace, more commonly known as Trace Road.〔 The road was the main route from Vincennes, Indiana to St. Louis, Missouri.〔 The establishment of Red Hill State Park coincided with the construction of dam and reservoir on Muddy Creek. The dam was completed and coincided with the opening of the park in 1953. The creek is a main tributary of the Embarras River. Red Hills Lake is with a maximum depth of . The lake has of shoreline. The park has expanded over the years to include many facilities that are typical of a state park including picnic areas, boat ramps, trails and campgrounds.〔 The dam at Red Hills Lake State Park was damaged by the 2008 Illinois earthquake.〔 Engineers feared that the dam could collapsed and cause flooding downstream. The decision was made to drain the lake for repairs in December 2008. The dam was repaired in 2009 and the lake has been restocked with fish.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Red Hills State Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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