Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site
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Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site is a 200-acre (0.8 km²) park near Chester, Illinois, on a blufftop overlooking the Mississippi River. It commemorates the vanished frontier town of Old Kaskaskia and the support it gave to George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution.
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Fort Kaskaskia SHS | |
Location | County Roads 3 and 6, west of Chester, Illinois |
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Coordinates | 37°58′8″N 89°54′38″W |
Built | 1754 (1754) |
Part of | French Colonial Historic District (ID74000772) |
Added to NRHP | April 3, 1974 |
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