Post Miami
The site of the First French Fort
Built about 1680

Commandants 1680-1697: Jean Baptiste Vissay, Sieur
DeVincennes, Francois-Margane, Sieur DeVincennes.
1725: Ensign Douville, 1734: Ensign DuBuison.

IN 1747, savages burned the Fort but it was rebuilt.
M. DeRaimond was commandant in 1748.

In 1750 the buildings of the post were abandoned
and became the center of Coldfoot Village, and Indian
settlement.  Presided over by Chief Coldfoot.

M. DeRaimond erected the last French Fort on St. Joseph
River at the intersection of the present St. Joe Blvd.
and Delaware Ave.

1983
Erected by Mary Penrose Wayne Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution