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English: Detail from a map entitled "Partie occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada", published in 1755, that shows the “Portage des Chenes” (the portage of oak trees), that later became known as the Chicago Portage.
Detail from a French map (1775) showing the Chicago Portage The explorers found the Mississippi River, explored it, [ 10 ] and then returned to Michilimakinac by a different route on the advice of Native Americans they had encountered along the way, who told them that there was a better way to return to Lake Michigan.
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
North American container ports. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.
The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage [2] in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located in Chicago Portage Forest Preserve and the Ottawa Trail Woods Forest Preserve, at the junction of Portage Creek with the Des Plaines River , on the west side ...
Port cities and towns in France (2 C) * Fishing communities in France (6 P) N. Ports and harbours of Hauts-de-France (2 C, 1 P) R. Roman harbors in France (1 P)
The State of Illinois and City of Chicago had relinquished all rights and interest in the bed of Lake Calumet to the Port District, so as to enable the District to develop Calumet Harbor. [5] The district was given the power to acquire any navigable waters of the state which were within the District area. [ 5 ]
The French Colonial Historic District is a historic district that encompasses a major region of 18th-century French colonization in southwestern Illinois. The district is anchored by Fort de Chartres and Fort Kaskaskia , two important French settlements and military posts in what was then the Illinois Country .