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Established in the late 1830s at the confluence of the Pecatonica and Rock Rivers, Macktown was one of the first settlements in northern Illinois. The community was a major trading post along the Galena–Chicago Trail and was the site of the region's first bridge across the Rock River. [2] Two buildings remain standing from the original ...
The Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite is the location where, around the 1780s, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable located his home and extensive trading post. [2] This home is generally considered to be the first permanent, non-native, residence in Chicago, Illinois. [3]
The Grand Village of the Illinois, also called Old Kaskaskia Village, is a site significant for being the best documented historic Native American village in the Illinois River valley. It was a large agricultural and trading village of Native Americans of the Illinois confederacy , located on the north bank of the Illinois River near the ...
Before it was incorporated as a town in 1833, the primary industry was fur trading. In the 1790s, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, the area's first resident and Haitian-born fur trader, established a fur trading post in the area, which later became known as Fort Dearborn, along the bank of the Chicago River, where he traded until relocating again ...
The first non-native to re-settle in the area may have been a trader named Guillory, who might have had a trading-post near Wolf Point on the Chicago River around 1778. [ 11 ] Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , a French-speaking colonist of African descent, built a prosperous farm and trading post near the mouth of the Chicago River in the 1780s ...
Snake River Trading Post; W. Willamette Trading Post This page was last edited on 13 December 2022, at 02:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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Local interest magazines published in Illinois (1 C) Pages in category "Magazines published in Illinois" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.