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The Piasa or Piasa Bird is a later name applied to the creature from Native American mythology depicted in a mural painted by Native Americans high on cliffsides above the Mississippi River. Its origi
Modern reproduction of the "Piasa Bird" completed 1998/1999 on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Alton.
Underwater Panther, George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian
A "Sacred Eagle" petroglyph—Washington State Park in Missouri
Piasa Bird Historic Site marker. Alton, Illinois
Alton, Illinois
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Alton is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about 18 miles north of St. Louis, Missouri. Its population was 25,676 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the Rive
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…cliffsides above the Mississippi River. Its original location was at the end of a chain of limestone bluffs in Madison County, Illinois, at present-day Alton, Illinois. Contemporary sketch of one of the beasts is identifiable as the underwater panther type. A second mural site depicting tritons (mermen) was also…
The Clark Bridge, connecting Alton to West Alton, Missouri
Historic Alton home
Alton flood, 1993
The Great River Road in Illinois north of Alton, looking south