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== History == Former names of this town include ''La Tour'' ("The Tower"), Jenkins Landing, Cochran's Woodyard Landing, and Evans' Landing.<ref>{{cite web |title= Visitors Guide to Grand Tower Jackson County, Illinois |url= http://www.greatriverroad.com/meetohio/grandtower.htm |access-date=2015-07-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url= https://www.academia.edu/3546739|title= Tower Rock: Sentinel of the Mississippi |journal= The Living Museum 56(2):19-21 |date=1994|access-date=2015-07-15|last1= McMillan |first1= Bruce }}</ref> The earliest inhabitants were a band of [[river pirate]]s, who settled here after being driven off Spanish soil west of the [[Mississippi River]], near the pirate [[ambush|ambush spot]] of [[Tower Rock]]. This [[outlaw]] settlement was destroyed by the [[United States Army]] [[dragoon]]s in 1803. A subsequent settler was a man named Walker, who is the namesake of Walker Hill.<ref>{{cite web |title= Visitors Guide to the Mississippi River Museum |url= http://www.greatriverroad.com/meetohio/missrivermuseum.htm |access-date=2015-07-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://sites.google.com/site/southernmostil/home/explorers/tower-rock-riverboats|title= DROUGHT PUTS LEGENDARY ROCK WITHIN REACH |date=1988-08-14|access-date=2015-07-15}}</ref> Severe flooding struck the town in 1947.<ref>{{cite magazine|title= The Unluckiest Town in America |url= http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1816756,00.html|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=2008-06-20|date=2015-07-15}}</ref>
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