Chroniques de N. D. du Lac
In 1895 Rev. John M. Toohey, CSC, translated Sorin's
Chronicles. This translation remained in manuscript
until 1992, when the University of Notre Dame celebrated
its sesquicentennial, and James T. Connelly, CSC, produced
an English edition based on Father Toohey's work, which
the University of Notre
Dame Press published.
Notre Dame du Lac 1842 & 1843
Topographical Description
It was on Nov 26th 1842 that F. Sorin arrived at Notre Dame
du Lac with seven Brothers, Mary (later changed to Br. Francis
Xavier), Gatien,
Patrick, William, Basil, Peter, and Francis,
after a journey of more than one hundred leagues through the
snow. This property was then known as St. Mary of the Lakes; it
is situated on the right of the St. Joseph's River, half a league
from South Bend, the county town of St. Joseph's County; one
league from the northern boundary of Indiana; about twelve
leagues from Lake Michigan; thirty-five leagues from Chicago;
seventy leagues from Detroit; and four hundred from New York.
524 acres. It contains about five hundred and twenty-four acres of
land, or nearly one third of a league square, only ten acres of
which were under cultivation, the rest being virgin forest, with
the exception of about eighty or ninety acres, the centre of
which was occupied by two charming lakes fed by springs, and its
bed being about twenty five feet deep. The banks contain an
inexhaustible supply of white marl, which being worked like . . .
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