LA PORTE PRAIRIE STOCKADE MEMORIAL PLAQUES
ON THIS SPOT A FORT-STOCKADE WAS BUILT TO DEFEND THE LIVES OF THE PIONEERS OF LA PORTE PRAIRIE FROM A THREATENED INVASION BY BLACK HAWK AND HIS BRAVES IN THE SPRING OF 1832. WARNING OF THE DANGER WAS BROUGHT BY JOHN COLEMAN WHO RODE HIS INDIAN PONY MUSQUOG FROM FT. DEARBORN TO THIS PLACE IN SIX HOURS.
Listing Details
- Public
- BLACK HAWK WAR
- Plaques On Stone
- 1909
- W. JOLIET ROAD
- 46350
- DUANE HALL
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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