Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
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jean-baptiste-point-du-sable-182-15875726
title:
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
text:
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s is memorialized as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court. Point du Sable was of African descent, but little else is known of his early life prior to the 1770s. During his career, the areas where he settled and traded around the Gr
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Early founder of Chicago (died 1818)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Point_du_Sable
date created:
2002-02-23T15:20:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T16:20:03Z
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