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642: 613:] by high pickets, with bastions at the alternate angles. Large gates opened to the north and south, and there were small portions here and there for the accommodation of the inmates. ... Beyond the parade-ground which extended south of the pickets, were the company gardens, well filled with currant-bushes and young fruit-trees. The fort stood at what might naturally be supposed to be the mouth of the river, yet it was not so, for in these days the latter took a turn, sweeping round the promontory on which the fort was built, towards the south, and joined the lake about half a mile below... 784: 811: 572: 438: 89: 282: 73: 799: 772: 564: 1894: 1884: 517:, who bought the old Du Sable property, arrived in Chicago in 1804, and rapidly became the civilian leader of the small settlement that grew around the fort. In 1810, Kinzie and Whistler became embroiled in a dispute over Kinzie supplying alcohol to the Indians. In April, Whistler and other senior officers at the fort were removed; Whistler was replaced as commandant of the fort by 506: 96: 625:, was deeded to the city by the Federal Government. In 1855, part of the fort was demolished so that the south bank of the Chicago River could be dredged, straightening the bend in the river and widening it at this point by about 150 feet (46 m); and in 1857, a fire destroyed nearly all the remaining buildings in the fort. The remaining 306:
and traveled along the Chicago River. Marquette returned in 1674, and camped for a few days near the mouth of the river. He moved to the portage, where he camped through the winter of 1674–75. Joliet and Marquette did not report any Native Americans living near the Chicago River area at that time.
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was selected as commandant of the new post, and set out with six men to complete the survey. The survey completed, on July 14, 1803, a company of troops set out to make the overland journey from Detroit to Chicago. Whistler and his family made their way to Chicago on a
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was anchored about half a mile offshore, unable to enter the Chicago River due to a sandbar at its mouth. Julia Whistler, the wife of Captain Whistler's son, Lieutenant William Whistler, later related that 2000 Indians gathered to see the
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effectively closed the area to Europeans in the first part of the 18th century. 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
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ordered the evacuation of Fort Dearborn in August 1814. Captain Heald oversaw the evacuation, but on August 15, the evacuees were ambushed along the trail by about 500
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of 1832 and by 1837, the fort was being used by the Superintendent of Harbor Works. In 1837, the fort and its reserve, including part of the land that became
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examples of these, and other stamps, to his friends. Because of the ensuing public outcry, millions of copies of "Farley's Follies" were printed and sold.
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Parts of the fort were lost to the widening of the Chicago River in 1855, and a fire in 1857. The last vestiges of Fort Dearborn were destroyed in the
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Archaeologists, however, have discovered numerous historic Indian village sites dating to that time elsewhere in the Chicago region.
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Human activity in the Chicago area prior to the arrival of European explorers is mostly unknown. In 1673, an expedition headed by
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is the next recorded resident of Chicago; he claimed to have settled at the mouth of the Chicago River in July 1790.
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Eyre, Ethel. A History of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, 1933-1941. Works Progress Administration
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Following the war, a second Fort Dearborn was built (1816). This fort consisted of a double wall of wooden
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to represent Fort Dearborn. This star is depicted as the left-most, or first, star of the flag.
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Baumann, Timothy E. (December 2005). "The Du Sable Grave Project in St. Charles, Missouri".
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The southern perimeter of Fort Dearborn was located at what is now the intersection of
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Discovery and Conquests of the Northwest, with the History of Chicago (volume 1)
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Meehan, Thomas A. (1963). "Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the First Chicagoan".
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had claimed a large territory (including the Chicago area), for France. Two of
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Letter of Antoine Ouilmette to John H. Kinzie, June 1, 1839; reproduced in
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described the fort as it appeared on her arrival in Chicago in 1831:
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Artist's rendering of a bird's-eye view of the original Fort Dearborn
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was signed between the US and several chiefs at Fort Greenville (now
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with large relief above the entrance commemorating Fort Dearborn
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In 1939, the Chicago City Council added a fourth star to the
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Following defeat of several Native American tribes in the
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1856 drawing showing Fort Dearborn as it appeared in 1831
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The Kinzie Mansion. Fort Dearborn is in the background.
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and few surviving outbuildings were destroyed in the
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Helm, Linai T. (1912). Gordon, Nellie Kinzie (ed.).
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Site of Fort Dearborn
Fort Dearborn (New Hampshire)
U.S. Historic district
Contributing property

Fort Dearborn is located in Chicago metropolitan area
Chicago
Illinois
41°53′17″N 87°37′26″W / 41.88806°N 87.62389°W / 41.88806; -87.62389
U.S. Army
stockade
American frontier
Michigan–Wacker Historic District
ID78001124
United States
fort
Chicago River
Chicago
Illinois
Captain
John Whistler
Henry Dearborn
United States Secretary of War
Battle of Fort Dearborn
War of 1812
Great Chicago Fire
Chicago Landmark
Michigan–Wacker Historic District
DuSable Michigan Avenue Bridge

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