; it is known as the Kolmer Site . (9) In 1763, Pierre Laclede Liguest quartered in the Prairie du Rocher French Colonial District where he planned the new village of St. Louis which he established in February of 1764. (10) On July 4, 1778, General George Rogers Clark, with the assistance of Father Pierre Gibault, captured Prairie du Rocher and the Village of Kaskaskia. (11) On November 28, 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark visited the Village of Kaskaskia, seeking Engages and troops to accompany them on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (12) Recently an American Fort was discovered that dates to 1803–1806. The site is next to the Garrison Hill Cemetery. (13) In 1818, Kaskaskia served as the first State Capital of Illinois. (14) In 1825, General Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Montier de Lafayette visited the Village of Kaskaskia. (15) In 1876, the religious order, the Adorers of the Blood of Christ (ASC), established a convent near Prairie du Rocher in rural Ruma to minister to the region through education and religious instruction in southwestern Illinois. The health care needs of the people led the Sisters to also create and operate hospitals. Since 1877 the Sisters staffed schools at the request of Pastors. By 1938 their staffing helped to open schools in 103 towns. They also served in other outreach ministries throughout the region. The ASC Convent was built in 1876. It was expanded in 1890 and enlarged again in 1925. The entire complex was updated in 1980. It served as an educational institution and later a high school that even offered 30 hours of college credit from St. Louis University. (16) The ASC convent site contains a memorial to and the remains of five martyred nuns who ministered in Liberia, West Africa in 1992. ASC Sisters had served there since 1971. (17) On January 20, 1961, the Modoc Rock Shelter was declared a National Historic Landmark. (18) In 1973, the Creole House in Prairie du Rocher was added to the National Registry of Historic Places. (19) In 1974, Prairie du Rocher and