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Encyclopedia > Fontenelle's Post

Fontenelle's Post was established by the American Fur Company near Bellevue, Nebraska in 1806. The American Fur Company was founded by John Jacob Astor in 1808. ... Bellevue is a city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States. ...

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Alternatively called Fontenelle's Post, Sarpy's Point, Point aux Poules, Point of the Pulls, Pull Point, Nebraska Post Office, Council Bluffs Post Office, and Traders Point, the Post was located down the Missouri River from Council Point, located in present-day Council Bluffs, Iowa. Named after the great Omaha chief Lucien Fontenelle, Fontenelle's Post absorbed the operations of Cabanne's Trading Post in 1836. The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the United States. ... Satellite photo showing Council Bluffs and Omaha, Nebraska Council Bluffs is the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States on the east bank of the Missouri River. ... The Omaha tribe began as a larger woodland tribe comprised of both the Omaha and Quapaw tribes. ... Cabannes Trading Post was established in 1822 by the American Fur Company as Fort Robidoux, named for the fur trapper Joseph Robidoux. ...


Fontenelle's Post became popularly known as Sarpy's Point by 1846, named after Colonel Peter Sarpy who ran the American Fur Company post there. Also located there was Sarpy's Ferry, an early crossing for the Oregon Trail. The American Fur Company was founded by John Jacob Astor in 1808. ... The Ox Team or the Old Oregon Trail 1852-1906 by Ezra Meeker. ...


In 1849 a post office was established at Sarpy's Point and named "Nebraska." It was moved to Council Bluffs in 1850, and then in 1852 moved back to the Nebraska Territory just south of Sarpy's Point, and named Trader’s Point.[1] Small-town post office and town hall in Lockhart, Alabama A post office is a facility (in most countries, a government one) where the public can purchase postage stamps for mailing correspondence or merchandise, and also drop off or pick up packages or other special-delivery items. ... Nebraska Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States from May 30, 1854 until March 1, 1867 when Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state. ...


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Nebraska Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States from May 30, 1854 until March 1, 1867 when Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state. ...

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  1. ^ (n.d.) [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymondfamily/SaintsMissouri1846.html Council Bluffs: 1846-1852.

 

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