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She was born Marguerite-Magdelaine Marcot in February 1781 at Fort St. Joseph, near present-day Niles, Michigan. [1] She was the youngest of seven mixed-race children of Jean Baptiste Marcot (1720–1783), a French factor or chief agent for the Northwest Fur Company, and his Odawa wife, Marie Nekesh (c. 1740 – c. 1790), also known as Marianne or Marie Amighissen. [2]
Michigan (3rd district) July 31, 1993 51 Brain cancer [189] Grand Rapids, Michigan: Woodlawn Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Vern Ehlers: January 3, 1985 July 9, 1942 Chicago, Illinois: 103rd (1993–1995) William Natcher Democratic Kentucky (2nd district) March 29, 1994 84 Heart failure [190] Bethesda, Maryland: Fairview Cemetery, Bowling ...
After a court battle, the Trading Post was opened on April 15, 1971. This was followed by ongoing battles between the City of Pleasant Ridge and the owner regarding safety violations, noise and crowd issues. On March 22, 1972, the Trading Post was destroyed by a fire. Although arson was determined as the cause, no suspect was ever named. [1]
The trading post became the vehicle both for the Navajo obtaining the goods they needed and a market for the products they wished to sell. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A sutler at Fort Defiance, Arizona began trading with the Navajo in 1851, but Fort Defiance closed in 1868 and the era of privately owned trading posts began. [ 7 ]
The first recorded white settler was a man named Ashman who established a trading post in Lac du Flambeau in 1818. [6]In the 1850s migrants from New England, primarily from Vermont and Connecticut, constructed wagon roads and trails through Vilas County including the Ontonagan Mail Trail and a military road from Fort Howard to Fort Wilkins in Copper Harbor, Michigan.
The couple, who met through their mutual powerlifting coach, got engaged on Jan. 24 during a trip to Sheffield, England. Degier says the two had talked a lot about marriage before and both "wanted ...
The area became one of the British Empire's four main fur trading centers in North America, along with Fort Niagara, Fort Detroit, and Michilimackinac. The Grand Portage is an 8.5-mile (13.7 km) (2720 rod ) footpath which bypasses a set of waterfalls and rapids on the last 20 miles (32 km) of the Pigeon River before it flows into Lake Superior .
James Le Tort (often spelled James Letort, c. 1675 – c. 1742) was a Pennsylvania fur trader and a coureur des bois active in the early 18th century. He established trading posts at several remote Native American communities in Pennsylvania and Ohio and became fluent in the Delaware and Shawnee languages.