; (9) the King of France made land concessions to certain entrepreneurs that evolved into villages, including the village of Chartres, which was located close to Fort de Chartres; (10) the Mitchigamea, or Michigamea, was an Indian Tribe in the Illinois Confederation that established a village north of Fort de Chartres, including a village in the American Bottom, inhabited from 1730 to 1752, which is one of the premier archaeological sites in the region, known as the Kolmer Site ; (11) in 1763, Pierre Laclede Liguest quartered in the Prairie du Rocher French Colonial District, planning the new village of St. Louis, which Liguest established in February 1764; (12) on July 4, 1778, General George Rogers Clark, with the assistance of Father Pierre Gibault, captured Prairie du Rocher and the village of Kaskaskia; (13) on November 28, 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark visited the village of Kaskaskia seeking boatmen and troops to accompany the Lewis and Clark expedition; (14) a United States fort located next to the Garrison Hill Cemetery was recently discovered that dates from 1803 to 1806; (15) in 1818, the village of Kaskaskia served as the first State capital of Illinois; (16) in 1825, General Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Montier de Lafayette visited the village of Kaskaskia; (17) in 1876, a religious order, known as the Adorers of the Blood of Christ , established a convent near Prairie du Rocher in rural Ruma to minister to the people of southwestern Illinois through education and religious instruction; (18) in addition, the health care needs of the people led the Sisters of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ to create and operate hospitals; (19) since 1877, the Sisters of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ have staffed schools at the request of pastors; (20) by 1938, the staffing of the Sisters of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ at schools helped to open schools in 103 towns; (21) the Sisters of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ also served in other outreach ministries throughout the region