Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable...
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The Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite is the location where, around the 1780s, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable located his home and extensive trading...
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Lake Shore Drive (redirect from Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Lake Shore Drive)
Lake Shore Drive (officially Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive; also known as DuSable Lake Shore Drive, the Outer Drive, the Drive, LSD or...
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Kitihawa Point Du Sable (also known by her Christian name, Catherine) was a Potawatomi woman who, with her husband Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, established...
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A bronze bust of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable by Erik Blome is installed in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The work was installed in 2009. The...
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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pitois, French writer on the occult Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, first settler in Chicago Jean-Baptiste...
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connecting on the north near the 1780s and 1790s homestead site of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and on the south the early 19th century site of Fort Dearborn...
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Jean Baptiste Point DuSable High School is a public 4–year high school campus in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois,...
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announced in 1987 by Mayor Harold Washington, is named in honor Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who settled nearby in the 1780s and is known as the "Founder...
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butterfish Sable Island, an island in Nova Scotia Avinash Sable, Indian athlete Devdatta Sable, Indian music composer Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, first...
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Chicago's Magnificent Mile. It is believed to be the site of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable's original residence and trading post. In 1965, the plaza was...
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William Burnett of Canada. In 1800, he purchased the homestead of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable for Burnett for 6,000 livres. The bill of sale was filed in Detroit...
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Chicago (category Cities in DuPage County, Illinois)
The first known permanent settler in Chicago was trader Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African descent, perhaps born in the French colony...
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early American settlers and black freemen, including Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and W. E. B. Du Bois, were of Haitian origin. The educational system...
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their interaction with the local Potawatomi Native Americans. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a black freeman, was the first permanent non-indigenous settler...
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is Pioneer Court, which marks the site of the homestead of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable who is recognized as the founder of Chicago. On the south bank...
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minister, businessman, educator Jane Minor, healer and emancipator Jean Baptiste Point du Sable: founder of Chicago and trader Lucy Terry: author Sojourner Truth:...
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Chicago's first permanent non-indigenous settler, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable.[1] In 1812 Kinzie murdered Jean La Lime, who worked as an interpreter at Fort...
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might have had a trading-post near Wolf Point on the Chicago River around 1778. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a French-speaking colonist of African descent...
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banks of the Chicago River near today's Michigan Avenue Bridge, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable built the first known permanent settlement in what was called...
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3806 S. Michigan Avenue. In 1968, the museum was renamed for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a fur trader of black African ancestry and the first non-Native-American...
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North Michigan) Other notable sites include Pioneer Court the Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite (401 North Michigan), which as the site of Chicago's...
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opened at this street. Jacques Marquette Jean-Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Brasseaux, 2000 William Pelfrey (2006)....
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time. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was a pioneering figure credited as the founder of Chicago. Born around 1745 in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), DuSable was...
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Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable, the city's founder, was Haitian of African...
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airport, while there is a train stop serving the Gary airport. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent resident of Chicago, Illinois...
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Haiti in various forms to the United States is deeply rooted. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, an immigrant from Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), founded...
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landmarks. The neighborhood hosts a National Historic Landmark, the Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite, the home of the first non-Native, husband of a Native...
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population campaigned for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable to be honored at the fair. At the time, few Chicagoans had even heard of Point du Sable, and the fair's organizers...
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Mathew Pitsch (born 1963 or 1964) – state senator from Arkansas Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (before 1750–1818) – frontier trader who was the first non-native...
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