07-03-2004, 06:59 AM
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Just me.
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: West central Illinois
Posts: 590,002
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The Peoria area was originally settled in 1680 by the explorer LaSalle. He built a fort on the bluffs overlooking the Illinois River called Fort Creve Coeur. The picture is of the monument erected to commerate that settlement. There's a reconstruction of a fort similar to the one he built about a mile from this site, but the road back to it is closed until later in the day. I'll have to take a picture of it one of these days.
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