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1765 - Richard McCarty, a Connecticut transplant, settles 400 acres on both sides of Cahokia Creek. He builds a mill and a trading post on marshy acreage between present-day St. Clair Ave. and Illinois Ave., just west of the present stock yards. He called his settlement St. Ursule in honor of his French-Canadian wife who remained in Montreal. McCarty enters the profitable Indian trade and expands his operations to Cahokia. This is the first record of a settlement on the present site of East St. Louis.