River Entrance and Starved Rock, Formerly Fort St. Louis

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $12.95

Stock #:779271
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: La Salle
State: Illinois (IL)
Publisher: Kneussl Bros., Publishers
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
Discovered by Marquette and Joliet in 1673, fortified by Tonti and De-la-Salle in 1682, Tonti lived there for 20 years and is the first white settlement in the Mississippi Valley. Highest elevation in Illinois, now famous for summer resort near Ottawa, Utica, La Salle and Peru, Ill.

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