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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]
Missouri River between Kansas City and Fort Leavenworth Kansas: Fort Charles: 1562: Beaufort South Carolina: Fort de Chartres: 1720: Randolph County Illinois: Fort Condé de la Mobille: 1723: Mobile Alabama: Fort Conti: 1679: Youngstown New York: Fort Crèvecoeur: 1680: Creve Coeur Illinois: Fort Denonville: 1687: Youngstown New York: Fort ...
Pere Marquette State Park is an 8,050-acre (3,260 ha) protected area in southwestern Jersey County, Illinois, United States. [2] It is located near the city of Grafton, Illinois , at the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Illinois River .
Fort Crèvecoeur. Chartier assisted in the construction of Fort Crèvecoeur, [11] which was built along the Illinois River near the present-day site of Peoria, Illinois. The fort was the first public building erected by white men within the boundaries of the modern state of Illinois, and the first fort built in the West by the French. [15]
Peoria is the oldest European settlement in Illinois, as explorers first ventured up the Illinois River from the Mississippi. The lands that eventually would become Peoria were first settled by Europeans in 1680, when French explorers René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri de Tonti constructed Fort Crevecoeur. [7]
In 1680, two French explorers, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri de Tonti, constructed the first fort on the east bank of the Illinois River, and named it Fort Crèvecœur. [20] Eleven years later, in 1691, another fort was built by de Tonti and his cousin, François Daupin de la Forêt. It is believed the fort was near present ...
[7]: 34 (It also argues the lake referred to as Pimiteoui was not Peoria Lake but instead that near Beardstown [7]: 36 and places Fort Crevecoeur near there as well. [7]: 41 ) References are made to the journals and maps of the explorers and to the original plats of Illinois drawn in the early 1800s, before the rivers had been altered. (The ...
The Illinois state park system began in 1908 with what is now Fort Massac State Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois, becoming the first park in a system encompassing over 60 parks and about the same number of recreational and wildlife areas.