Old Treaty Elm

Old Treaty Elm

The Old Treaty Elm (approx 41°59′8″N 87°44′27″W / 41.98556°N 87.74083°W / 41.98556; -87.74083) marked the Northern boundary of the Fort Dearborn Reservation, the approximate edge of the Billy Caldwell Reservation, and the trail to Lake Geneva. Under its branches, the Indian Treaty of 1835 was signed (in 1833) by Chief Sauganash, also known as "Billy Caldwell". The tree was located in the Sauganash neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, and stood until 1933. The marker is placed several feet west of the actual location of the trunk of the tree, which stood approximately in the middle of what is now Kilbourn Avenue, just west of Rogers Avenue, which is the Old Indian Boundary Line.

The treaty, negotiated and signed in 1833 and enacted in 1835, ceded Indian land on the western shore of Lake Michigan to the US Government in return for land west of the Mississippi River, in what was to become Missouri.[1]

  1. ^ Andreas, A.T., History of Chicago: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 1, Chicago, IL: A.T. Andreas, p. 36 

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