The 2002 reconstruction of the 1802 Fort Massac, with the Ohio River in the background. The original, 1757 French fort foundation impression, can be seen at center-right, beyond the trees.
FortMassac (or Fort Massiac) is a French colonial and early National-era fort on the Ohio River in Massac County, Illinois. Its site was listed on the...
Massac may refer to several places in the United States: Massac, Kentucky Massac County, Illinois FortMassac, Massac County, Illinois Massac is the name...
their surrounding areas. Lewis conducted interviews and recruited at FortMassac, and at the old French Mississippi River village of Kaskaskia. At Kaskakia...
The Illinois state park system began in 1908 with what is now FortMassac State Park becoming the first park in a system encompassing over 60 parks and...
settlements of the Mississippi Valley. Clark and his men marched overland from FortMassac, near the present-day Metropolis, Illinois, to Kaskaskia. They avoided...
2000) Fort Dearborn, Chicago Fort Defiance, Cairo, Illinois FortMassac, Metropolis, Illinois Fort Sheridan, Highwood, Illinois (closed 1993) Fort Arlington...
placed a statue by sculptor Leon Hermant at Metropolis, the site of FortMassac, in Massac County, Illinois, in the early 1900s. Sculptor Felix de Weldon created...
2011. The Illinois state parks system began in 1908 with what is now FortMassac State Park, becoming the first park in a system encompassing more than...
ordered him on 31 March to build and man a fortification on the site of FortMassac. This was to prevent any action against Spain by the French Revolutionary...
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with a group of men that he recruited from Kaskaskia and FortMassac, constructing a frontier fort. Captain Meriwether Lewis joined the camp several weeks...
below the river pirate hideout of Cave-In-Rock and the U.S. Army post at FortMassac, which monitored and policed frontier river traffic just above the confluence...
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and Fort Sandusky. The treaty exempted established settlements at St. Vincennes, General Clark's grant, various French settlements, and FortMassac from...
Ohio River at FortMassac and marched to Kaskaskia, taking it on the night of July 4. Cahokia, Vincennes, and several other villages and forts in British...
vessels on the north side of the Ohio River, near the ruins of FortMassac, a French fort abandoned after the French and Indian War (near present Metropolis...
was routinely patrolled by the U.S. Army, with troops garrisoned at FortMassac as constabulary against Native Americans, colonial raiders from Spanish...
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explorer and the namesake of Pike's Peak in Colorado, arrested Collot at FortMassac near what is now Metropolis, Ill., but had no legal grounds to detain...
Fort de Chartres was a French fortification first built in 1720 on the east bank of the Mississippi River in present-day Illinois. It was used as the administrative...
recorded as exploring the region, and by 1683, the French had established Fort St. Louis on the large sandstone butte overlooking the river, they called...
important early outposts in Southern Illinois were at Old Shawneetown and FortMassac on the Ohio River. After defeating the French in the French and Indian...
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