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Abbagaso Honors Famous Explorers on Chicago River
Amid public ceremonies on the Chicago River mouth, officials unveil bronze tablets honoring Joliet Marquette and La Salle. Lectures by Prof McLaughlin and remarks by Mrs. Lamar frame a historical recount of the 1670s Chicago Portage, Joliet and Marquette’s voyage, and La Salle’s exploration, with notes on Frontenac’s governance and the river's navigable past.
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JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN _ RAFNO
Michigan Boulevard
Chicago River
United States
Illinois Society of the Colonial
Damer of America
Holmes
Maj. A. A’ Sprague
Chicago
Sieur de la’ Salle
Hehri
Chicago Historical Society
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Atlanta
National Society of the Colonial
Darnel
Andrew McLaughlin
University of Chicago
Joliet
Marquette
Chicago R
LaSalle
Mississippi
Gulf
Green Bay
Mackinache
Wisconsin Fox
St. Joseph River
Calumet
Louis de Buade
de Frontenac
New Trance
Great Lakes
Grant River
Gulf of Califorule
Canada
Quebec
Wisconsin
Arkanena
Gulf ‘of Mexico
Lake Michigan
Ilinois
Desplaines
Marquete
Frontenae
Peoria
Bad
Indiana
Mackinac
Claude Dablon
Xavier
Jesuit Relations
Frogen
Portage
Blesses Virsin Immaculate
Frontenac
Bleur Joliet
Lake Ontario
Fort Frontenac
Gulf of Mexico
Lake Erie
California
Grand River
St Lawrence
Montreal
Chicago Portage
Niagara Dalle
Des Plaines
la Colbertle
Colbert
Loula Xty
Baye Des Puans
G. Bay
Misson de St. Fr
Riviere ‘de la Divine
Illinois
Anne de la Grangé
Robert Caveller
Sieur de la Salle
Rouen
France
New France
Ohio River
Louleville
Missiasippi
Crevecover
Ilinois River
New Yorks
Atlantic
Louisiane
Louis XIV
Louis
Lavaca
Texas
Trinity River
Monsr. de la Salle
van der Gucht
London
Hennepin
Gravier
Bibliotheque de Rouen
Henri
Tont
la Salle
Misalesippi Valley
Miseissippi
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
Kansas
City