Fort Kaskaskia SHS | |
Location | County Roads 3 and 6, west of Chester, Illinois |
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Coordinates | 37°58′8″N 89°54′38″W / 37.96889°N 89.91056°W |
Built | 1754 |
Part of | French Colonial Historic District (ID74000772) |
Added to NRHP | April 3, 1974 |
Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site is a 200-acre (0.8 km2) park near Chester, Illinois, on a blufftop overlooking the Mississippi River. It commemorates the vanished frontier town of Old Kaskaskia and the support it gave to George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution.