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La Salle at the St. Joseph portage
1681
South Bend, Indiana
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The bend in the river is the point where a canoe coming up the St. Joseph is closest to the Kankakee and the Mississippi beyond it, a few miles of carrying between two halves of the continent. La Salle used the portage and met Miami and Illinois leaders under an oak here to argue for a common front against the Iroquois. The city grew on the crossing, not the river.
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