25-52 Resolution Approving and Adopting the LaSalle Park Neighborhood Plan

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Neighborhood Landuse Timeline Overview The following timeline highlights the multi-century •',;" Menominee to Ottawa'' st`)°••P a.evolution of the LaSalle Park Neighborhood.Focusing •'"'""'"' on the geological.cultural and land use history allows t AtOK'1'e S1'..tOSSYtt _ ; iin l _ _ _ TAKF. for a deeper understanding of the current conditions of PORI ER Sac , the neighborhood. u Potawatomi Meskwaki o • � STARKE Kickapo0 _ ineStrrvyeZ"1N/7?9 4 .14" " ' bow^lay f a' f3Tx Miami Q i . , Grand --- ` JASP'' Kankakee Illinois • Moroomo Marsh Shawnee ` . • 1600 679 Grand Kankakee Marsh Native Tribes Fur Trade & French Settlement The Great North-South Continental Divide(aka By the 1600's.Native American groups,primarily the The Kankakee River served as major route for Native the"Midwest continental divide")that separates Miami and later the Potawatomi.had been living in the Americans and early settlers,notably French fur the Great Lakes watershed from the south Atlantic St Joseph River Valley for centuries before European trappers.South Bend and Lasalle Park were once part Ocean watershed also runs through South Bend and settlement began.The Miami tribe was an indigenous of a major route used by Native Americans and French LaSalle Park.To the north of the divide.the St Joseph group near southern Lake Michigan.settling in a explorers to connect the Great Lakes and the Gulf of River empties into Lake Michigan.and to the south, village along the St.Joseph River.Later.the St Joseph Mexico via an overland canoe portage between the the Kankakee River flows towards the Mississippi River. Potawatomi became the primary inhabitants,occupying Kankakee and St Joseph rivers.On December 3,167g. The Kankakee had a meandering course,nearly 240 the region along the St Joseph River for a significant with a group of 40,French explorer LaSalle headed miles Long,through surrounding wetlands known as period,drawn to its rich resources. south from Fort Miami(St Joseph.Michigan).canoeing the Grand Kankakee Marsh.With headwaters at South up the St.Joseph River to a portage at present-day Bend.the"Everglades of the North"covered over 5,300 South Bend. square miles from current day South Bend westward into Illinois:perhaps the largest inland marsh wetland in They crossed through the LaSalle Park area to the the US. Kankakee River and followed it to the Illinois River eventually reaching Peoria.Illinois.Broader European settlement followed.led by the English and French. Lasalle's Landing is commemorated on the west bank of the St.Joseph River,just east of where Pinhook Park is today. 8 .- sw,._tl,,:,