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TIL about Samuel Ross Mason who was a “River Pirate”. He moved his headquarters to Cave-in-Rock (now the Cave-in-Rock State Park in Hardin County) on the Illinois shore in 1797. He had gathered a number of followers who openly based themselves at Cave-in-Rock.

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