Fort Orleans
Fort Orleans (sometimes referred to Fort D'Orleans) was a French fort in colonial North America. It was the first fort on the Missouri River built by any Europeans on the Missouri River. It was built near the mouth of the Grand River near present-day Brunswick. The fort was occupied from 1723 to 1726. It was the first multi-year European settlement in what is today the U.S. state of Missouri.
Return of the tribes to Fort Orleans from Paris depicted upon a mural in Missouri State Capitol
French settlements in 1763
History
The fort was built on November 9, 1723. 40 French soldiers were supposed to be there.[1]
References
Other websites
- Drawing c. 1745 of the fort Archived 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Kansas City Public Library Quarterly, Vol. IX, No. 3 (July 1909), p. 78
- "Plan for Fort Orleans" Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine, Louisiana Digital Libraries
- Historic marker
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