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Le Grand Champ (French for "the big field") is an alluvial floodplain, also called a bottom, extending along the Mississippi River in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. [1]The American Bottom stretches from St. Louis south along the east side of the Mississippi River all the way to the mouth of the Kaskaskia River, just north of Fort Kaskaskia, Illinois.
Both the present-day Illinois and Missouri shores along the Mississippi River were referred to as the Illinois Country and was governed as a district of New France. A number of Métis and French colonial communities had been established just to the north of Bois Brule Bottom: Kaskaskia , Ste. Genevieve , Chartres , Prairie du Rocher , Nouvelle ...
According to Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri, and most of the descendants of the early settlers, 1735 is the most generally accepted date. Dr. Carl J. Ekberg, in his book, Colonial Ste. Genevieve, suggests that Ste. Genevieve was founded closer to 1750, based on interpretations of early letters, maps, and Catholic Church documents. Ste.
Felix Vallé held two enslaved man, Isaac and Joseph (aged mid-30s and 22-24 respectively), and his nephew Neree Vallé held Theodore (aged 25). They worked in the lead mines owned by Felix Vallé and formed part of the 1852 Ste. Genevieve Stampede trying to escape to Illinois. They were recaptured after a reward offered by the Vallés. [5]
Grandchamp-le-Château (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ʃɑ̃ lə ʃato] ⓘ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mézidon Vallée d'Auge .
The Brazeau Bottom is located in the southeast corner of Perry County, Missouri and has an elevation of 368 ft. (109 m.). [8] [9] [10] Brazeau Creek flows through Brazeau Bottom and empties into the Mississippi near Wittenberg.
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