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1780 BATTLEMARKER IS UNVEILED(Continued from page 1)where Tremont is now located £ was once the Great Council i { Ground of various native tribes.Using the measurements givenby Lt. Swearington, in 1803, and the map by Gen. Hull, of 1802, a committee consisting of Col. Wentworth, Earl Reed, and Prof. Powell Moore picked the site to erect the marker in the east end of the state park.Whether or nor it's the exact spot is of little consequenee, for like Vincennes, Ouiatanon, and Chicago, the original structure was burned before any survey or map was accurately made, and the perfectionist will always have an argument that it was somewhere else.No Picture Available The site selected is but a stone’s throw from other likely sites, and is safely away from ears, beach crowds and campers. Its situation is ideal, whether or not it’s exact.There is, of course, no picture of the fort in existence, but the W, P. A. Writers project of 1939 had an artist copy a sketch of the ancient Cgieageou” Little Fori and the Waukegan Little Fort, from the pen and ink drawings in the Chicago Historical Society, assuming that all the chain of French Little Forts was the same.It is pictured as a small palisaded block-house, rising above a stockade wall. It’s a quite commonplace' pioneer structure that appears in practically all pioneer history. It is pictured also, in Miss Neola Johnson’s illustrated map of Porter county's lake shore.
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Valparaiso Vidette Messenger
Valparaiso, Indiana, US
Tue, May 21, 1957
Page 3
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Lake C.
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