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A few boards from the old fort were retained and are now in the Chicago History Museum in Lincoln Park. First Presbyterian Church (Chicago), the longest continuously-operating institution in Chicago was founded in the carpentry shop of Fort Dearborn on June 26, 1833 and today is located in Woodlawn, Chicago [27]
August 15, the Battle of Fort Dearborn. 1816: The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri. Ft. Dearborn is rebuilt. 1818: December 3, Illinois joins the Union and becomes a state. 1820 Chicago 1821 Survey of Chicago. 1830 August 4, Chicago is surveyed and platted for the first time by James Thompson. Population: "Less than 100". [1 ...
Plan of Fort Dearborn drawn by John Whistler in 1808. Fort Dearborn was constructed by United States troops under the command of Captain John Whistler in 1803. [1] It was located on the south bank of the main stem of the Chicago River in what is now the Loop community area of downtown Chicago. At the time, the area was seen as wilderness.
Battle of Fort Dearborn: Massacre of U.S. soldiers and civilians carried out by Potawatomi and Menominee warriors, after Hull ordered the evacuation of Fort Dearborn (Illinois Territory, at present-day Chicago) upon learning the British had captured Fort Mackinac. 1812 Aug 15–16 Great Lakes region: Siege of Detroit: Significant U.S. setback.
1824 The Chicago Road was surveyed between Fort Dearborn in Chicago and Detroit. Besides its original military purpose, it became a major avenue for settlement and trade. 1828 The British turned over their fort on Drummond Island to the United States. 1828 Lewis Cass and Henry Schoolcraft established the Historical Society of Michigan.
Fort Dearborn depicted as in 1831, sketched 1850s although the accuracy of the sketch was debated soon after it appeared.. The first non-native settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Frenchman of European and African descent, [11] who built a farm at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1788 to 1790 [a].
Other notable sites include Pioneer Court the Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite (401 North Michigan), which as the site of Chicago's first permanent residence [4] is a National Historic Landmark, and the Wrigley Building (410 North Michigan). Across the Michigan Avenue Bridge is the former site of Fort Dearborn, the US Army post established ...
At the time, few Chicagoans had even heard of Point du Sable, [72] and the World's Fair organizers presented the 1803 construction of Fort Dearborn as the city's historical beginning. [73] The campaign was partially successful, however, with a replica of Point du Sable's cabin being presented as part of the "background of the history of Chicago ...