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'''Fond du Lac''' is a [[Neighborhoods of Duluth, Minnesota|neighborhood ]] in [[Duluth, Minnesota|Duluth]], [[Minnesota]], [[United States]]. ▼{{Refimprove|date=January 2010}}
▲'''Fond du Lac''' is a neighborhood in [[Duluth, Minnesota|Duluth]], [[Minnesota]], [[United States]].
[[Minnesota State Highway 23|Evergreen Memorial Highway (State Highway 23)]] serves as a main arterial route in the community.
==History==
TheFond areadu Lac 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 1826 and 1847 [[Treaty of Fond du Lac|Treaties of Fond du Lac]] were signed at Fond du Lac. 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==
''(Directions following those of Duluth's general street grid system, not actual geographical coordinates)''
*[[Gary -– New Duluth]] (east)
*[[Midway Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota|Midway Township]] (north)
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