Editing Iuka, Illinois (section)

==Points of interest==
There is a limestone outcropping due southeast of Iuka that is one of the purported locations of [[Burrows Cave]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.illinoiscaves.com/jackwbio.htm |author = Jack Ward |title = Jack Ward personal biography |accessdate=January 27, 2014}}</ref> In 1982, Russell E. Burrow claimed to have found numerous archeological artifacts in this cave inscribed in Ancient Egyptian and Greek. Today, Burrows Cave is considered a hoax by most mainstream archeologists.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Joseph |first=Frank |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=11koDwAAQBAJ&dq=Iuka,+Illinois+Burrows+cave&pg=PT138 |title=The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus |date=March 25, 2003 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-59143-851-9 |language=en}}</ref>

Along [[U.S. Route 50]], {{convert|0.8|mi|1}} east of the village limits, lies the Halfway Tavern, a replica structure of the original that lies halfway between [[Vincennes, Indiana|Vincennes]] and [[St. Louis]]. The building is now a State Historic Site.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.illinois.gov/dnrhistoric/Experience/Sites/Southeast/Pages/Halfway-Tavern.aspx| title=Halfway Tavern| publisher=Illinois Historic Preservation Division| access-date=February 24, 2023}}</ref> It is claimed that [[Abraham Lincoln]] stayed at the inn, though there is no proof of his presence at the tavern. It is also believed that a group of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] robbed gold from a passing stagecoach in the early 1800s, and that the gold is buried in a wooded area to the north of the tavern, but cited evidence questions the legitimacy of this claim.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salemil.us/Pages/SalemIL_About/tavern |title=Welcome to Salem, IL - Legend of Half-Way Tavern |website=www.salemil.us |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061024214246/http://www.salemil.us/Pages/SalemIL_about/tavern |archive-date=October 24, 2006}}</ref>

Further east along U.S. Route 50 lies the Hebron School, a wooden one-room schoolhouse that operated between 1908 and 1952.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}