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Burial Place of Chief Pontiac

St. Louis, MO

A plaque near the former colonial village area marks the traditional St. Louis burial place of Odawa leader Pontiac, who was killed in 1769. The exact burial history is not perfectly documented, but the marker anchors an important and often-overlooked part of regional Native and colonial history.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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