St. Joseph County, Indiana · Before 1700
Before 1700
15 dated events in Before 1700, in order. Part of the full timeline.
Before 1700 15 dated mentions
- 1679The first passage, and the French century upriver
December 1679: The first European passage of this valley in the record is La Salle's, and it is dated to the month.
Granger
- 1679The Mission Era: Priests and Missionaries on the River, 1679–1857
In December 1679 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, came down the St. Joseph River and crossed the St. Joseph–Kankakee portage at the river's bend — the passage the tribes leg carries whole.
Mishawaka
- 1679The first passage, and the French century upriver
The first European passage of this valley is dated to the month: in December 1679 La Salle's party — thirty-three persons in eight canoes, Tonty and Hennepin among them, with three Récollet friars…
Osceola
- 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.
South Bend
- 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.
South Bend
- 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.
South Bend
- 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"…
South Bend
- 1679–1763The ground on imperial maps first: the river on French sheets, 1679–1763
The river enters print before the ground does: the St. Joseph River reached European paper with La Salle's expedition of December 1679 — the party raised Fort Miami at the river's mouth and on 3 December 1679 ascended the river to the south bend, crossing to the Kankakee portage above this ground.
Osceola
- 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.
South Bend
- 1679–1837The mission era whole: from the river missions to the first resident congregation
The sequence, consolidated from this build's Before the City and Tribes legs and not retold at their depth, runs: La Salle's passage in December 1679; the French century administered from Fort St. Joseph (raised 1691, at present Niles) and its missions, and from the portage post where South Bend now stands…
Osceola
- 1679–1845The working river: what floated, what was locked, and what never reached Osceola
The river's first working use was the canoe and voyageur route tied to the St. Joseph–Kankakee portage, passable all year (Knoblock, 1925): La Salle ascended in 1679 with thirty men, and a brisk fur trade ran from about 1700.
Osceola
- 1679–1911The working river: keelboats, steamboats, the lock, and the races
The St. Joseph–Kankakee portage, passable at all times of year over solid high ground, tied the lake river to the Kankakee and so to the Illinois country; in 1679 La Salle, with thirty men including Hennepin and Tonty, passed up the river from Lake Michigan to the head of the portage…
Granger
- 1686The post that was not here: Fort St. Joseph at Niles, and the empty rapids
In 1686 King Louis XIV granted land to the Jesuits for the Mission de Saint-Joseph, where Father Claude Allouez ministered to the Potawatomi.
Mishawaka
- 1691Fort St. Joseph at Niles: the fort that governed the valley
The post: On the south side of present Niles, Michigan, where the lower St. Joseph River passes the crossing of the Sauk Trail and the Grand River Trail, near the portage that joins the Great Lakes watershed to the Mississippi's, the French in 1691 built Fort St. Joseph beside the Jesuit mission that already stood there…
Mishawaka
- 1691The fort beat: one fort for the valley, none for this ground, and the treaties that closed its era
The founding, without a dedication: The valley's fort was founded as an act of administration, not ceremony: the French sent soldiers to the Saint-Joseph mission in 1691 to expand the fur trade and solidify their Native relations, and Fort St. Joseph — mission, garrison and trading post together — stood from that year at present Niles.
Mishawaka