Illinois Adventure - Fort de Chartres

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Fort de Chartres

1350 State Highway 155

Prairie du Rocher, Illinois 62277

(618) 284-7230

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Type: Buildings,

Illinois Tourism District: Southern

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Description

Located on Illinois Route 155, four miles west of Prairie du Rocher, the site marks the location of the last of three successive forts named "de Chartres" built by the French during their eighteenth-century colonial occupation of what is today Illinois.

Links

http://www.ftdechartres.com/page/page/1396753.htm

http://www.state.il.us/hpa/hs/fort_de_chartres.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_de_Chartres

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