Fond du Lac is a

neighborhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neigh ...

Duluth Duluth ( ) is a Port, port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County, Minnesota, St. Louis County. Located on Lake Superior in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region, the city is a hub for cargo shipping. The population ...

Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...

, United States. Evergreen Memorial Highway ( State Highway 23) 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: ) was the site of an

Ojibwe The Ojibwe (; Ojibwe writing systems#Ojibwe syllabics, syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: ''Ojibweg'' ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (''Ojibwewaki'' ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the Great Plains, n ...

settlement in the 16th through 19th centuries. The

American Fur Company The American Fur Company (AFC) was a prominent American company that sold furs, skins, and buffalo robes. It was founded in 1808 by John Jacob Astor, a German Americans, German immigrant to the United States. During its heyday in the early 19th c ...

established a trading post in the community in 1817 and operated it 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

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 {{StLouisCountyMN-geo-stub