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This historical reconstruction of an 1832 civilian fort from the Black Hawk War, in Illinois, featured a stockade with a blockhouse. A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls, made of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall. [1]
Map of Fort Crevecoeur in 1680 Map by Abbott Claude Bernou in 1681, showing Fort Crèvecoeur on the East bank of the Illinois River.. Fort Crevecoeur (French: Fort Crèvecœur) was the first public building erected by Europeans within the boundaries of the modern state of Illinois and the first fort built in the West by the French. [2]
The protesters were placed in the Fort Hood stockade for failing to report for morning reveille. [4] The protesting soldiers became known as the "Fort Hood 43"; their refusal to deploy to Chicago for riot-control duties was one of the largest acts of dissent in United States military history. [5]
Reconstruction of a palisade in a Celtic village at St Fagans National History Museum, Wales Reconstruction of a medieval palisade in Germany. A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall.
The creation of Stockade Lake in 1934 rose the water table under the fort, causing damage to its logs. [27] It was again reconstructed in 1941 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. [28] Historical re-enactments and interpretive events were held at the fort over the years. [25] By 1999, the second replica had again fallen into disrepair. [27]
It was said to be the location of a historic battle involving the Illiniwek, and was initially called Camp Bataille des Illinois. [4] Major Joseph Hamilton Daveiss proposed that the stockade be named Fort Harrison in General Harrison's honor. The fort was finished October 28, 1811, and had a 150 feet (46 m) stockade encircling the post. [4]
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The earliest settlers in the vicinity of Apple River Fort, probably miners, likely arrived more than a decade before the fort's construction. The miners settled the site and built log cabins around and near the Kellogg's Trail, a route from Galena to Dixon's Ferry; they obtained fresh water from a nearby spring.