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The 1962 Redbird tells of the development of Frank’s Fort into the community of West Frankfort, Illinois, depicts the activities at Frankfort Community High School, and shows how the past is prologue.
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The history of Frank's Fort was vivid + rrmtwitTHOfsr MEMiMtj 3 f«ST BRICK BVHOIHCIRICHO «’ D. Johnson, D. Lcnzini, and P. Frills poinl wilh interest and pride to the marker indicating the site of the first and largest town in the county, Frankfort. A modern Logan School now occupies the place where the first court house stood, and the recess revelers seem unaware of the history surrounding them on this hill. In 1835 a little, log Methodist church, located where Trinity now stands, was the only church within a radius of several miles. The log building served for forty years before this frame building, which is still a part of the present church, was erected. Lumber for the building was hauled in wagons from Du Quoin. Beside the church stands whot was then Logan School. It might have been! Old Frankfort, the oldest town in Franklin County, might have been one of the biggest cities in this part of the state had not the residents of what are now Franklin and Williamson Counties in August, 1839, voted to divide Franklin County, for Frank fort, Shawncetown, and Kaskaskia were the most populous and important settlements in this area. Many people may be surprised to learn that the original fort, built by Frank Jordan and his brothers, did not crown the hill on which Logan School now stands. The original fort was built about 1804 by Frank Jordan, his brothers, and their followers some four miles southeast of the present city limits and two and one half miles south and a little east of Thompsonville, near where Liberty Church now stands. In a bloody battle fought in 1802, the Shawnee Indians drove the trespassing Kaskaskians out of their territory, only to lose it eventually to the pioneering white men. J. Annis points out to B. Brown the inscription on the commemorative marker located west of the city limits on route 149 in front of Townmount Church.
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