Fort Dearborn
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But the Fort Dearborn panel, with its depiction of the Potawatomi, likely wouldn’t.
From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2020
The four panels were created in 1928 to honor the city’s rebuilding after the Chicago Fire, the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the early settler John Kinzie and the explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet.
From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2020
John Kinzie ran a saloon and moonlighted as a silversmith in the early 1800s, when Chicago was nothing more than Fort Dearborn and a few pioneers.
From Chicago Tribune • Jan. 6, 2014
Then Fort Dearborn was wrenched from the soldiers by the Indians and for several years the garrison's burned bones stuck out of the sand.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dance was carried on in a procession through the peaceful streets, and was concluded at Fort Dearborn in presence of the officers and soldiers of the garrison.
From In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk by Butterworth, Hezekiah
