Pat, I understand about the "Three Horseshoes" pub, but 560 years is still older than anything we have here in North America. I live in the so called 'midwest' near Chicago, 1000 miles from the cities on the Atlantic coast (and 2000 miles from the Pacific coast). Isn't it 1000 miles from Moscow to London?
Point is, in 1831 we had Indian wars when Chief Blackhawk lead an uprising in Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was a Captain in the militia during the war. We were the frontier here only 200 years ago. Folks here were clearing land for subsistence farming. Construction was primitive. There is very little worth saving. And then Chicago had a fire in the 1871. In many ways, this was similar to London's great fire of 1666, but 200 years later. Regards, Bob S. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not completely innumerate. The 560-year figure referred to the "Three Horseshoes" pub that Malcolm Smith mentioned. I agree that not every old building ought to be preserved. However, while growing up in Quebec City, it was a pleasure to see and go into the many buildings dating from the 1700s and 1800s that are still in daily use.
