Fond du Lac is a
neighborhood in
Duluth
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,
Minnesota
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, United States.
Evergreen Memorial Highway (
State Highway 23
Route 23, or Highway 23, can refer to:
International
* European route E23
Australia
* Federal Highway (Australia)
* Monaro Highway
* (South Australia)
* Dorat Road (not signed everywhere)
Austria
* Autobahn Südosttangente Wien
Canada
* Albe ...
) serves as a main route in the community.
The eastern terminus of
State Highway 210 is in the Fond du Lac neighborhood near the
Saint Louis River bridge.
History
Fond du Lac (French for "bottom of the lake") was the site of an
Ojibwe
The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains.
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settlement in the 16th through 19th centuries. The
American Fur Company established a trading post in the community in 1817 and operated for 25 years. Mission Creek was named for an Ojibwe mission located here in the 1830s. The American Fur Company post was purchased by the
Missouri Fur Company in 1842 and continued operating until 1848. The 1826 and 1847
Treaties of Fond du Lac were signed at Fond du Lac.
A village was platted in 1856 and incorporated in 1857. In 1895, the city of
Duluth
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, nicknames = Twin Ports (with Superior), Zenith City
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annexed Fond du Lac.
Adjacent neighborhoods
''(Directions following those of Duluth's general street grid system, not actual geographical coordinates)''
*
Gary – New Duluth (east)
*
Midway Township (north)
References
External links
City of Duluth websiteCity map of neighborhoods
(PDF)
Former municipalities in Minnesota
Duluth–Superior metropolitan area
Neighborhoods in Duluth, Minnesota
1817 establishments in Michigan Territory
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