What to see in America . ^ trappersand traders passed back and forth here because they had tocarry their canoes only a short distance to get from waterstributary to Lake ]\Iichigan into those flowing to the Missis-sippi. Sometimes, when the streams were in flood, theycould paddle straight through. In ancient times theGreat Lakes sent their overflow by way of the Ilhnois andINIississippi rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. No per- .^^^ _ manent settlement wasmade where the city wasto be until the govern-ment established FortDearborn in 1804. InAugust, 1812, great num-bers of Indians gatheredmenacingl
What to see in America . ^ trappersand traders passed back and forth here because they had tocarry their canoes only a short distance to get from waterstributary to Lake ]\Iichigan into those flowing to the Missis-sippi. Sometimes, when the streams were in flood, theycould paddle straight through. In ancient times theGreat Lakes sent their overflow by way of the Ilhnois andINIississippi rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. No per- .^^^ _ manent settlement wasmade where the city wasto be until the govern-ment established FortDearborn in 1804. InAugust, 1812, great num-bers of Indians gatheredmenacingly near the fort,which at that time con-tained a garrison of fifty-eight men, and theirfamilies to the extentof twelve women andtwenty children. Settlerswho had built five cab-ins in the vicinity cameinto the fort, and on thefourteenth of the month Masonic Temple, Chicago. 244 What to See in America
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