Fontenelle's Post
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Fontenelle's Post was established by the American Fur Company near Bellevue, Nebraska in 1806.
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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. The post was named after an Omaha chief named Logan Fontenelle, who was the son of an Omaha woman and Lucien Fontenelle, a Frenchman and noted fur trader from New Orleans. Logan was an interpreter for the United States Government from 1840 to l853 at the Post.[1]
Fontenelle's Post absorbed the operations of Cabanne's Trading Post in 1836.
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.
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.[2]
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- Peter Sarpy Nebraska Studies website
[edit] References
- ^ (n.d.) Logan Fontenelle Nebraska Department of Education.
- ^ (n.d.) [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymondfamily/SaintsMissouri1846.html Council Bluffs: 1846-1852.
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