LA PORTE PRAIRIE STOCKADE MEMORIAL PLAQUES
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Plaques On Stone
Year Dedicated: 1909
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: BLACK HAWK WAR
Photograph By: DUANE HALL
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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.
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