South Bend, Indiana · Before 1700
Before 1700
5 dated events in Before 1700, in order. Part of the full timeline.
Before 1700 5 dated mentions
- 1679La Salle's passage: December 1679
The voyage: René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, came to this river in the late fall of 1679 by water, from the lake.
- 1679La Salle at the portage, 1679 and 1681
The first European name in the record is a traveller passing through: In December 1679 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, came up the St. Joseph River from its mouth — where he had built a small fort at the lake — with a party in eight canoes, looking for the portage the Native peoples of the river had described to him.
- 1679–1718The Town at the Portage: A Place the Record Cannot Fix
The documented facts: When the written record of this ground opens, in December 1679, La Salle's party came up the river of the Miamis to a town of the Miami people near the carrying place — the portage from the St. Joseph to the headwaters of the Kankakee.
- 1679–1721The Parkovash: buffalo on the river, and the ox-head of Portage Prairie
The earliest dated animal record of the portage: When La Salle, lost on the portage in December 1679, finally came down the St. Joseph River to his party, the county history's account of the episode has him arriving "with the opossums hanging from his belt"…
- 1679–1831The Mission Era: Priests on the St. Joseph River, 1679-1831
On 3 December 1679 Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, set out up the river then called the River of the Miamis, and his party found and crossed the St. Joseph-Kankakee portage, whose landing lay about two miles below the present limits of South Bend.