Editing Fort Dearborn (section)

==Second Fort Dearborn==
[[File:Fort Dearborn in 1850.jpg|thumb|left|Fort Dearborn in 1850]]
[[File:Barracks of Second Fort Dearborn, 1856.jpg|thumb|left|Fort Dearborn in 1856]]
Following the war, a second Fort Dearborn was built (1816). This fort consisted of a double wall of wooden [[palisade]]s, officer and enlisted [[barracks]], a garden, and other buildings. The American forces garrisoned the fort until 1823, when peace with the Indians led the garrison to be deemed redundant. The temporary abandonment lasted until 1828, when it was re-garrisoned following the [[Winnebago War|outbreak of war]] with the [[Winnebago (tribe)|Winnebago]] Indians.<ref>{{Harvnb|Currey|1912|p=188}}</ref> In her 1856 memoir, ''Wau Bun'', [[Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie|Juliette Kinzie]] described the fort as it appeared on her arrival in Chicago in 1831:

{{Quote|The fort was inclosed{{sic}} by high pickets, with bastions at the alternate angles. Large gates opened to the north and south, and there were small portions here and there for the accommodation of the inmates.&nbsp;... Beyond the parade-ground which extended south of the pickets, were the company gardens, well filled with currant-bushes and young fruit-trees. The fort stood at what might naturally be supposed to be the mouth of the river, yet it was not so, for in these days the latter took a turn, sweeping round the promontory on which the fort was built, towards the south, and joined the lake about half a mile below...<ref>{{Harvnb|Kinzie|1856|pp=183–184}}</ref>}}

The fort was closed briefly before the [[Black Hawk War]] of 1832 and by 1837, the fort was being used by the Superintendent of Harbor Works. In 1837, the fort and its reserve, including part of the land that became [[Grant Park (Chicago)|Grant Park]], was deeded to the city by the Federal Government.<ref>{{cite web | title=United States v. Illinois Cent. R. CO., 154 U.S. 225 (1894)| url=http://www.neweastside.org/1894.html| access-date=15 May 2011}}</ref> In 1855, part of the fort was demolished so that the south bank of the Chicago River could be dredged, straightening the bend in the river and widening it at this point by about {{convert|150|ft|m}};<ref>{{cite book | last=Andreas| first=Alfred T.| title=History of Chicago, Volume 1| year=1884| publisher=A. T. Andreas| url=https://archive.org/details/historyofchicago01inandr| access-date=September 19, 2010| page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofchicago01inandr/page/238 238]}}</ref> and in 1857, a fire destroyed nearly all the remaining buildings in the fort. The remaining [[blockhouse]] and few surviving outbuildings were destroyed in the [[Great Chicago Fire]] of 1871.

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