{"id":5911,"global_id":"www.crazycrow.com\/site?id=5911","global_id_lineage":["www.crazycrow.com\/site?id=5911"],"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2016-06-28 13:43:44","date_utc":"2016-06-28 13:43:44","modified":"2017-09-10 20:59:16","modified_utc":"2017-09-10 20:59:16","url":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/event\/fort-crevecoeur-fall-rendezvous\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/5911","title":"Fort Crevecoeur Fall Rendezvous","description":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:-20px;--awb-margin-top:-20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 5px;\">2017 Fort Crevecoeur Fall Rendezvous &amp; Gathering<\/h1>\n<div class=\"rating-container\" align=\"right\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;\">Rate This Event<\/h4>\n<table class=\"rw-rating-table rw-ltr rw-no-labels\"><tr><td><nobr>&nbsp;<\/nobr><\/td><td><div class=\"rw-ui-container rw-class-blog-post rw-urid-10\"><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n<p>The Annual Fort Crevecoeur Fall Rendezvous &amp; Gathering will be held on September 23-24, 2017 at Fort Crevecoeur in Creve Couer, IL. Gates are open to the public Saturday and Sunday 9a &#8211; 5p. A small gate fee applies. All proceeds from the gate go towards the upkeep of Fort Crevecoeur Park.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to be a participant in this event and are new to our gathering family please feel free to contact us for details; we would love to have you join us.<\/p>\n<p>Experience frontier life from 1680 to 1850 at the Fort Crevecoeur Fall Rendezvous. The two-day event brings together history enthusiasts and curious spectators to raise money and awareness of the fort&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>La Salle and his men built the original fort in 1680 while constructing a boat to travel the Mississippi River. According to historians, the fort was burned down. The exact location of the original fort has been the subject of great debate since Peoria was founded. A reconstructed fort now commemorates Illinois&#8217; first European-built structure.<\/p>\n<p>Twice a year in spring and fall, the not-for-profit Fort Crevecoeur, Inc. holds Rendezvous Days as a main fundraiser to maintain the fort and surrounding park. But the primary goal of the event is to give people a taste of life in the old days, Hanse said.<\/p>\n<p>Men and women dressed as traders and Native Americans sold items like arrowheads, walking sticks and beaded jewelry. Tents and tepees dotted the park and participants demonstrated trades like old-fashioned rope making and knife crafting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong><br \/>\nFort Crevecoeur Park<br \/>\n301 Lawnridge Dr,<br \/>\nCreve Coeur, IL 61610<br \/>\nPhone:(309) 694-3193<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><br \/>\nFort Crevecoeur Park Office<br \/>\n309-694-3193<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18525\" style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fort-Crevecoeur-rendezvous-12-850x567.jpg\" alt=\"Fort Crevecoeur Fall Rendezvous &amp; Gathering, Fort Crevecoeur Rendezvous\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fort-Crevecoeur-rendezvous-12-850x567-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fort-Crevecoeur-rendezvous-12-850x567-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fort-Crevecoeur-rendezvous-12-850x567-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fort-Crevecoeur-rendezvous-12-850x567-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fort-Crevecoeur-rendezvous-12-850x567-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fort-Crevecoeur-rendezvous-12-850x567-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fort-Crevecoeur-rendezvous-12-850x567.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Fort Crevecoeur Park<\/strong><br \/>\nFort Crevecoeur Park is located near Peoria and includes a reconstructed Fort Crevecoeur (about nine miles from the original location), a museum and a campground. French explorer Robert de La Salle (1643-87) helped the Peoria Indians build a fort in 1860 to defend themselves against the Iroquois. LaSalle made a deal with the local tribes to protect them from the Iroquois tribal league. LaSalle fostered good relationships with the tribes\u2014Fort Creve Coeur wasn\u2019t around too long though\u2014this original site quickly became abandoned as Tonti left to fortify Starved Rock. Tonti\u2019s mission to Starved Rock was to only end in failure though. However, the Fort Crevecoeur\u2019s seven man garrison quit their fort, destroyed the fortifications, and made a trek to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Mark your calendar today so you won&#8217;t miss the next Fort Crevecoeur Fall Rendezvous and Gathering at Fort Crevecoeur Park in Creve Couer, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: Fort Crevecoeur Fall Rendezvous, Fort Crevecoeur Fall Rendezvous &amp; Gathering, Fort Crevecoeur Rendezvous, Illinois Rendezvous, Illinois Voyageur Rendezvous, Voyageur Rendezvous<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><a class=\"blue\" href=\"\/site\/events\/category\/french-indian-war-reenactment\/\">View other French &amp; Indian War Reenactments and Other Events<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><a class=\"blue\" href=\"\/site\/events\/category\/mountain-man-rendezvous\/\">View other Buckskinner Rendezvous<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><div 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The American Fur Company and some other companies failed. \r\n\r\nIn canoe-based fur trade areas, one type of rendezvous is associated with the voyageur and canoe-based fur trade business which was largely in Canada and the states in the US around the Great Lakes, especially in Minnesota and Wisconsin. These Voyageur Rendezvous were generally at a transportation transfer point within in a wilderness route that could not be traversed in one season run by and including the fur trade of only a single company. The transfer was the dominant reason for holding the rendezvous although they included other meetings and revelry.\r\n\r\nRendezvous held in the western part of what is now the United States included a more diverse range of activities than their northern counterparts. Such a rendezvous might include several fur trading companies, and array of fur traders, mountain men and native Americans. A substantial amount of deal-making and trading occurred at these rendezvous. 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These events help raise funds to support the park and Fort Crevecoeur.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"blue\" href=\"\/site\/event\/fort-crevecoeur-spring-rendezvous\/\">Fort Crevecoeur Spring Rendezvous<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Camping is available at Ft. Crevecoeur from the month of April 1 on through to October 31. We welcome all church groups, family campers, Boy Scout troops, either RV or primitive. Our campground is set back in a quiet area. The park itself is an eighty-nine acre park with a thirty-nine acre dedicated Nature Preserve, the remaining fifty-nine acres are governed as a Nature sanctuary. We have water and electric hookups available as well as access to a dump station, which is situated at the back of the camp ground.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Crevecoeur &#8211; built in 1680<\/p>\n<p>On January 5, 1680, eight canoes passed through the Narrows of the Illinois River above Peoria and came upon the Peoria Indians, camped on both sides of the Pimiteoui Lake. With LaSalles&#8217; canoe on the right and Tonti&#8217;s on the left, the eight canoes formed a line to cover the width of the river, signalling the Indians that they came in peace. The Indians were frightened at first, but, upon realizing that the white men meant no harm, welcomed them with a feast of bear meat, buffalo fat, and porridge. LaSalle paid the Indians for the corn taken from their village at Starved Rock, presented the chiefs with gifts of axes and tobacco, and smoked the calumet pipe. The Indians rubbed the bare feet of the priests with bear&#8217;s grease to stimulate their fatigued muscles.<\/p>\n<p>That night, the Peoria Indians were visited by Monsoela, a chief of the Maskouten nation, who, accompanied by a party of Miami Indians and their enemies, the Iroquois. Frightened by the sudden change in attitude on the part of the Peoria Indians, six of LaSalles&#8217; men deserted the camp the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Crevecoeur<br \/>\nIn order to reassure the Indians, LaSalle agreed to help defend them against the Iroquois. The Illinois River had frozen over during the night, but as soon as the river began to thaw, LaSalle and his men began the building of Fort Crevecoeur one league downstream and across the river from the Pimiteoui Village.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Crevecoeur&#8217;s Destruction<br \/>\nOn April 15, Tonti left Fort Crevecoeur with Father Ribourde and two other men to begin fortification of Starved Rock. The following day, the remaining seven men at Fort Crevecoeur pillaged the fort of all ammunition and provisions, destroyed it, and fled back to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the men who had been at the fort joined Tonti at Starved Rock and told him of the fort&#8217;s destruction. 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