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Fort Payne

CITY:

Naperville

COUNTY:

DuPage

DEDICATED BY:

The DuPage County Historical Society and The Illinois State Historical Society

DEDICATION DATE:

January 1, 1964 at 6:00:00 AM

The marker is located in Naperville, on the North Central College Campus near Merner Fieldhouse.

Near this site in 1832, a 100-foot square stockade enclosed by wooden pickets, with two blockhouses on diagonal corners, was built. Here Captain Morgan L. Payne and his company of forty-five men protected the settlers from roaming Sauk Indians during the Black Hawk War.

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