Andrews University - Cardinal Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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Heritage of E. M, C. site of Niles was indicated upon the rude maps of those remote times as Fort St. Joseph. Long before the first fort was established on the present site of Detroit, long before Fort Dearborn was set up, Fort St. Joseph was known as one of the most important spots in this great western frontier. The history of Fort St. Joseph reads like a romance. Many students of history have found a task worthy of the most important spots in this great western frontier. The history of Fort St. Joseph reads like a romance. Many students of history have found a task worthy of the most brilliant minds in piecing the thread of this story from the time La Salle and his band first sailed up the river of the Miamis, as the St. Joseph River was then known among the Indians, until the time this valley was turned over to the United States. La Salle was the great explorer after Nicolet to come down the St. joseph River. This vvas in 1679. He had come from the East, pushing his way through the lakes to the Mississippi River by way of the St. Joseph River, a short portage to the chain-of-the-lakes, to the Kankakee River, and then on to the Father of Haters. A stone not far from Niles now marks the spot where this portage once played such an important part as a connecting link between these two rivers. The fur traders and missionaries followed La Salle, and for more than a century the French flag floated over Fort St. Joseph. Finally, the British came to dispute 'this territory of New France. After years of warring, the flag of Great Britain was placed upon the ramparts of Montreal, and all of New France, including Fort St. joseph, came under the flag of the British. Pushing their way up the Mississippi River in 1781, the Spanish found it easy to wipe out the small garrisons which had been left by the British in these lower forts. and the standard of Spain took the place of the British flag. But it was not long that the Spaniards stayed. The surrender of the British to the American colonies at the end of the American Revolution gave this territory to the colonists. Spain with a slight protest withdrew, content to retain the Great Louisiana Territory to the South. In a short space of time came the fourth flag, the Stars and Stripes, to wave over old Fort St. Joseph. Thus, in the history of our locality, the Ffczu' dr Lis of France, the Union black of Great Britain, and the jagged Red Cross of Spain preceded the Stars and Stripes above the stockade of Fort St. Joseph, established here by La Salle in the early seventeenth century. This is the reason that the citizens of Niles have named their hotel the Four Flags. Near Fort St. Joseph were located the head villages of the Potawatomies. on one side of the river and of the Miamis on the other. The French explorers led the way for the French Catholic missionaries who converted the Indians to their faith. Chief Pokagen, who for many years ruled the Potawatomies, was one of their converts. The coming of the pale-faces brought wonder and amazement to the red-skins. La Salle himself at first was regarded as a god. Gifts were pre- Coizfiuzred on page 99. IPngc Ninety- twol

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