A history ?

[johnny99]

ok waukegans original name was "little fort",so im assuming there was a structure called little fort at some point. So does anybody know where exactly the little fort was? What stands on that site currently? Do any pictures exist of it? I always wanted to know.

[Frankzilch]

johnny99 Wrote:ok waukegans original name was "little fort",so im assuming there was a structure called little fort at some point. So does anybody know where exactly the little fort was? What stands on that site currently? Do any pictures exist of it? I always wanted to know.

No. No one knows. No.

[Blackdiamond]

Shouldn't the Historical people know?

[pauljs75]

Supposedly the fort was some kind of trading post back in the Lewis & Clark days. Just a place to stop along Lake Michigan for boats heading north and south along its western shore. Like Chicago, earliest non-native settlers were French, etc. etc. (Nothing about it on Wikipedia or anything?) You could also ask around at the Library, or perhaps if anybody in the historical society is still at Bowen Park, you might have some luck there.