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'''Fond du Lac''' is a [[Neighborhoods of Duluth, Minnesota|neighborhood]] in [[Duluth, Minnesota|Duluth]], [[Minnesota]], United States.
Evergreen Memorial Highway ([[Minnesota State Highway 23|
The eastern terminus of [[Minnesota State Highway 210|State Highway 210]] is in the Fond du Lac neighborhood near the [[Saint Louis River (Lake Superior tributary)|Saint Louis River]] bridge.
The area was the site of an [[Ojibwe]] settlement in the 16th through 19th centuries. The [[American Fur Company]] established a trading post in the community in 1817 and operated for 25 years. Mission Creek was named for an Ojibwe mission located here in the 1830s. The American Fur Company post was purchased by the [[Missouri Fur Company]] in 1842 and continued operating until 1848. The 1854 [[Treaty of La Pointe#1854 Treaty of La Pointe|Treaty of La Pointe]] was signed at Fond du Lac. A village was platted in 1856 and incorporated in 1857. In 1895, Duluth annexed Fond du Lac.<ref name="mndot">{{cite web|url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadsides/historic/files/iforms/SL-DUL-2416.pdf|title=MnDOT Historic Roadside Development Structures Inventory: Fond du Lac Culvert (Bridge 5757)|publisher=[[Minnesota Department of Transportation]]|date=1998|accessdate=2009-09-10}}</ref>▼
==History==
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A village was platted in 1856 and incorporated in 1857. In 1895, the city of [[Duluth, Minnesota|Duluth]] annexed Fond du Lac.<ref name="mndot">{{cite web|url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadsides/historic/files/iforms/SL-DUL-2416.pdf|title=MnDOT Historic Roadside Development Structures Inventory: Fond du Lac Culvert (Bridge 5757)|publisher=[[Minnesota Department of Transportation]]|year=1998|accessdate=2009-09-10}}</ref>
==Adjacent neighborhoods==
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''(Directions following those of Duluth's general street grid system, not actual geographical coordinates)''
*[[Gary
*[[Midway Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota|Midway Township]] (north)
{{US Census population
|1880= 200
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 12, 2019}}</ref>
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.duluthmn.gov/ City of Duluth website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150905223711/http://www.duluthmn.gov/
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