Illinois, historical and statistical, comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory, and stateDerived from the most authentic sources, including original documents and papersTogether with carefully prepared statistical tables . ant, the Chevalier Macarty Mactique, who had suc-ceeded Maj. St. Claire, in view of the threatening aspect of thesituation in the Ohio Valley, with a sufficient number of com-panies to form a regiment of grenadiers. Macarty was in-structed to rebuild the fort, employing stone instead of woodin its construction. Besides being
Illinois, historical and statistical, comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory, and stateDerived from the most authentic sources, including original documents and papersTogether with carefully prepared statistical tables . ant, the Chevalier Macarty Mactique, who had suc-ceeded Maj. St. Claire, in view of the threatening aspect of thesituation in the Ohio Valley, with a sufficient number of com-panies to form a regiment of grenadiers. Macarty was in-structed to rebuild the fort, employing stone instead of woodin its construction. Besides being more substantially built, the new fortificationwas to be erected on a larger scale, and was to be equippedwith what were then known as the latest appliances of civil-ized warfare. The work was completed in 1754 at a cost of amillion crowns—a sum equivalent to about $1,000,000 in , and pronounced by Capt. Philip Pittman, who inspectedit in 1766, the most convenient and best-built fort in NorthAmerica. The new Fort Chartres was in the form of an * Dillons Historical Notes, 71. Parkmans Montcalm and Wolf, I., 153. FORT CHARTRES. 115 PLAN OF FORT CHARTRES ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Drawn from a survey made in 1820 by Nicholas Hansen of Illinois, andLewis C. AAA The exterior wall—1447 feet. B The gate or entrance to the fort. C A small gate. D D The two houses formerly occupied by the commandant and commissary, each 96 feet in length and 30 in The The magazine. GGGG Houses formerly occupied as barracks, 135 feet in length, 36 in H Formerly occupied as a storehouse and guard-house, 90 feet by The remains of small The remains of a L L A ravine, which in the spring is filled with water. Between this and the river, which is about half-a-mile, is a thick growth of cotton-wood. The area of the fort is about four square acres. Il6 ILLINOIS—HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL. irregular quadrilateral. The total length of its four s
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