Portage Des Sioux, Missouri
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Portage Des Sioux is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The town sits on the Mississippi River roughly opposite Elsah, Illinois, and is the home of the riverside shrine of Our Lady
This water tower provides potable water to the town of Portage Des Sioux in St. Charles, Missouri.
Our Lady of the Rivers
Treaty of Fort Clark
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The Treaty of Fort Clark was signed at Fort Osage on November 10, 1808, in which the Osage Nation ceded all the land east of the fort in Missouri and Arkansas north of the Arkansas River to the United
Portage Des Sioux, Missouri
…and affirmed the Treaty of St. Louis (1804) in which the Sauk and Meskwaki ceding northeast Missouri and much of Illinois and Wisconsin and the 1808 Treaty of Fort Clark in which the Osage Nation ceded all of Missouri and Arkansas. These treaties were to ultimately result in the Black Hawk War and the tribes being forced…
Mural depicting the treaty from the Missouri State Capitol
Fort Osage from the west. The "factory" trading post is on the left.