Welcome to Saline County Gateway

Useful Links

River To River Trail
The River-to-River Trail Society is a not-for-profit 501C-3 organization that has grown to include hundreds of volunteers who are dedicated to promoting, marking, and maintaining the 160 mile River-to-River Trail in southern Illinois.

Shawnee National Forest
Be sure to visit the Shawnee National Forest site to learn more information about one of the most beautiful forests in the United States today.

Weather.com
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Southeastern Illinois Regional Planning & Development Commission (SIRP&DC)
is dedicated to serve the people, businesses, communities and local government units within the Illinois counties of Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Pope and Saline.

Shawnee Queen River Taxi
The Shawnee Queen is a 48 passenger vessel equipped with a wheelchair tie-down, ADA accessible restroom and bicycle racks.

Saline County, Illinois: USGenWeb
This site is a part of the Illinois Genweb Project which is all a part of the USGenweb Project. If the link for the US Genweb project above does not work, try accessing it at this USGenweb link. The sole purpose of the US Genweb project is to provide as much FREE access to on-line information as possible. If you should have any information that would help others in their research, please consider donating it to the US Genweb project.

Hardin County, Illinois: USGenWeb
In April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Illinois comprehensive Genealogy Database. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Illinois, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index.

Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears Association (TOTA) is a non-profit, membership organization formed to support the creation, development, and interpretation of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. Designated as a national historic trail by Congress in 1987, the Trail commemorates the forced removal of the Cherokee people from their homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in 1838 - 1839. In 1993, the Association entered into a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service (NPS) to promote and engage in the protection and preservation of Trail of Tears National Historic Trail resources; to promote awareness of the Trail's legacy, including the effects of the U.S. Government's Indian Removal Policy on the Cherokees and other tribes (primarily the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, and Seminole); and to perpetuate the management and development techniques that are consistent with the National Park Service's trail plan.