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| Essential
Architecture- Chicago
Loop North Site of Fort Dearborn |
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Intersection of Michigan Avenue and
Wacker Drive |
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1803, demolished 1856 |
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Non-native settlement of Chicago remained sparse until after the Louisiana
Purchase of 1803, when Fort Dearborn was built on the south side of the
Chicago River, across from the cabin of early settler Jean Baptiste
Pointe DuSable. The fort, which was named for U.S. Secretary of War
Henry Dearborn, served as the country's major western military garrison
until August 1812, when it was destroyed following an Indian uprising. A
second fort, erected on the same site in 1816, was demolished in 1856. |
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With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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