Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

So named in honor of French Canadian, Francois-Marle Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes (1700-1736).

In 1732, he built a fort here to protect the claims of France in the New World.

In 1736, Vincennes was burned at the stake by Chickasaw Indians near the present town of Fulton, Tennessee.

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