Bellefontaine
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BruceS
N 38° 19.621 W 090° 09.046
15S E 749063 N 4245941
Historical marker on southside of Waterloo, IL.
Waymark Code: WM9ED
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 03/25/2006
Views: 54
"Bellefontaine was one of the first settlements made by Americans in what is
now Illinois. The earliest settlers included families of Revolutionary War
veterans who had served with George Rogers Clark. Captain James Moore brought a
band of pioneers from Virginia and Maryland in the winter of 1781-1782. The
settlement took its name from a nearby spring the French called 'La Belle
Fontaine' (beautiful spring). By the 1800's it was the third largest community
in the Illinois Territory."
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Bellefontaine is located 2 blocks south of this marker.
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