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The Old Fort Belle Fontaine Cemetery was established in 1809, when Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bissell moved the original Fort Belle Fontaine encampment to a new location. The cemetery was located about 100 yards or so southwest from the Cantonment buildings, which during the period of 1805 to 1826 had interments of at least 30–40 military ...
The Fort Belle Fontaine County Park is a unit of the park system of St. Louis County, Missouri. 305.6 acres in size, it is bordered by the Missouri River, by Cold Water Creek, and by the Missouri Hills campus of the Missouri Division of Youth Services (M-DYS). [1]
Barbour County (named for James Barbour, 19th-century U.S. Senator from Virginia) Bay Minette (named for a French surveyor with the last name of Minet) [1] Bayou la Batre ("Bayou of the Battery") [2] [a] Belle Fontaine ("Beautiful Fountain") [3] Belle Mina ("belle" meaning beautiful + mina) [3] Bon Air ("Good Air") [4] Bon Secour ("Good Rescue ...
Fort Belle Fontaine; Fort Benjamin Hawkins; Beverly Fort; Fort Bowyer; C. Fort Cap au Gris; ... Fort Norfolk (Norfolk County, Ontario) Fort Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia) O.
The area was chosen for its natural advantages, including a large clear water spring called "la belle fontaine" by the early French settlers. By the winter of 1805, Fort Bellefontaine was constructed under the command of Colonel Jacob Kingsbury, with log cabins, a trading house, a bakery, a blacksmith shop, and huts for enlisted soldiers.
In November 1985, Indiana National Corporation announced the acquisition of the deposits and the four branch offices of the failed Leo-based Allen County Bank & Trust Company from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for $2 million. [21] After the acquisition, Indiana National Bank had 45 branch offices in Marion County and 4 in Allen County.
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The Upper Mississippi River during the War of 1812. 1: Fort Belle Fontaine U.S. headquarters; 2: Fort Osage, abandoned 1813; 3: Fort Madison, defeated 1813; 4: Fort Shelby, defeated 1814; 5: Battle of Rock Island Rapids, July 1814 and the Battle of Credit Island, Sept. 1814; 6: Fort Johnson, abandoned 1814; 7: Fort Cap au Gris and the Battle of the Sink Hole, May 1815.