Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . rairie du Rocher.) Atthe outbreak of the French and Indian War(1756), the original fortification was repaired andvirtually rebuilt. Its cost at that time is estimated to have amounted to 1,000,000 Frenchcrowns. After the occupation of Illinois by theBritish, Fort Chartres still remained the seat ofgovernment until 1772, when one side of thefortification was washed away by a freshet, andheadquarters were transferred to KaskaskiaThe first common law court ever held in the Mis-sissippi Valley was established here, in 1768, bythe order of Colonel Wilkins of th
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . rairie du Rocher.) Atthe outbreak of the French and Indian War(1756), the original fortification was repaired andvirtually rebuilt. Its cost at that time is estimated to have amounted to 1,000,000 Frenchcrowns. After the occupation of Illinois by theBritish, Fort Chartres still remained the seat ofgovernment until 1772, when one side of thefortification was washed away by a freshet, andheadquarters were transferred to KaskaskiaThe first common law court ever held in the Mis-sissippi Valley was established here, in 1768, bythe order of Colonel Wilkins of the Englisharmy. The ruins of the old fort, situated in thenorthwest corner of Randolph County, once con-stituted an object of no little interest to anti-quarians, but the site has disappeared during thepast generation by the encroachments of theMississippi. FORT DEARBORN, the name of a UnitedStates military post, established at the mouth ofthe Chicago River in 1803 or 1804, on a tract ofland six miles square conveyed by the Indians in. fit 13 =??3 -f — ?ira^SK EARLY HISTORIC SCENES, CHICAGO.
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