Charcoal sketch by Jude Huck of Father Pierre Gibault, a French-Canadian Jesuit priest active in Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Ste. Genevieve and other areas in the surrounding region during the American Revolution and late 1700s.
The Fort Massac Site, located southeast of Metropolis, Illinois on the Ohio River, has been on the National Registrar of Historic Places since July 14, 1971. The photograph shows the reconstructed fort, with the Ohio River and a statue honoring…