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Bookmark or Share- Who Was Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the New Namesake of Chicago's Lake ...A stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in 1978 features Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable (circa 1745-1818), the first non-Indigenous settler of an area called Eschikagou, now known as...
- Jean-Baptiste-Point DuSable (1745-1818) - BlackpastJean-Baptiste-Point DuSable, a frontier trader, trapper and farmer is generally regarded as the first resident of what is now Chicago, Illinois. There is very little definite information on DuSable’s past. It is believed by some historians that he was born free around 1745 in St. Marc, Saint-Dominique (Haiti).
- Who was Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable? - Field MuseumBefore the Chicago City Council voted to rename Lake Shore Drive in June 2021, recognition for Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable was sprinkled throughout the city: a high school, an outdoor statuary bust, and the DuSable Museum of African American History located on Chicago's South Side.
- The DuSable Black History Museum and Education CenterThe DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center is a Chicago community institution and the first non-profit Museum dedicated to the Become a Member Events
- Early Chicago: Jean Baptiste DuSable | WTTW ChicagoThe first permanent settler in Chicago was a black man named Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. He may have been born on the island of Haiti around 1745 to a French mariner and a mother who was a slave of African descent. DuSable was educated in France and then, in the early 1770s, sailed to New Orleans.
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