From the January 2011 Peoria Magazine "Fort Clark constructed in 1813" by Mark L. Johnson.
Just over 200 years ago, the small village of Lake Pimiteoui, which would grow into today's City of Peoria, was gradually adjusting to life as part of the new nation of the United States.
On February 3, 1809, the U.S. Congress had established the territory of Illinois, which included all of modern day Illinois, Wisconsin and the upper western peninsula of Michigan and northeastern Minnesota. Ninian Edwards, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals in Kentucky, was appointed by President James Madison as the governor of the new territory, and he served in that position until Illinois was granted statehood eight years later.
In the 1810 federal census, just 12,181 white settlers lived in the Illinois Territory. At that time, the village of Peoria was attached to St. Clair County, and the census put its population at 93. Most of these early Peorians were of French descent, having arrived from Canada and were primarily trappers and traders.
--Brock-Perry
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