HAITI

HAITI / HAÏTI.

3rd Pan American Sport Games, Chicago.
Jean Baptiste Paul Dessables and Region of Lake Michigan map.
Third stamp in a set of 3, issued on 27.08.1959.
Face value: 75 cents of Haitian gourde.
Printed by Staatsdruckerei, Wien.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 34 x 45 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 582.
- Scott No. 450.
- StampWorld No. 570.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 651.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 422.

Jean Baptiste Paul Dessables (or Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable) born in Saint-Marc, in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), between 1745 and 1750 and died in Saint Charles, in the present American state of Mossouri in 1818, he was the first inhabitant of the city of Chicago, of which he is considered the founder. He was a mulatto, the son of a French sailor and a former slave of African origin. In 1765 he arrived in New Orleans, then under Spanish control, traced the Mississippi River to the current state of Illinois, and in 1779 he settled in the place where Chicago currently stands (thirty years before the construction of Fort Dearborn), where he built a house. He was not officially recognized as the founder of Chicago until 1968.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).