The Blackhawk War Monument was built as a memorial to the soldiers killed in the Indian War of 1832. The remains of soldiers who had been buried along the trail, where they fell, were removed 50 years later and buried in one enclosure here. Area farmers initiated the movement, and the rock was quarried locally for a fitting monument. It stands today in a small park southeast of Kent, IL in an area known as Kellogg’s Grove. Kellogg's Grove, originally known as Burr Oak Grove, was a high point along a Native American trail between Peoria and Prairie du Chien, later the trail was used by fur traders. During the 1820s people began to move from southern Illinois into the lead producing areas in and around Galena, Illinois in the far northwestern corner of the state. Oliver W. Kellogg was one of the people who helped develop the wagon trail from Galena to Peoria.