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Chester, Illinois
Photo: Charles Houchin, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kaskaskia was Illinois's first capital, settled in 1703 and capital of the territory and then the state until 1820, when the seat moved to Vandalia. The Mississippi gradually swallowed the town, and the 1881 flood cut it off as an island, leaving the Church of the Immaculate Conception and the Liberty Bell of the West, a bell sent by King Louis XV. Fewer than twenty people live there, and it is reached through Missouri.
Reached by a bridge at St. Mary, Missouri; very small, with a few historic sites.
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