The purpose of the DeKalb County Historical Society is to study, preserve and record our heritage. By the end of 1969, 167 members from many areas of the United States had joined the Society. Native Americans were here first..Next came fur traders and trail blazers, settlers followed.
King Henry III of France was assassinated in the siege by Jacques ClÃ©ment. On August 1, 1589, Henry III, lodged with his army in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, prepared to attack Paris when a young fanatical Dominican friar named Jacques ClÃ©ment, carrying false papers, was granted access to deliver important documents to the King.
Henry died in 1460. The Portuguese continued searching for a sea route around Africa to India, finally accomplishing this feat 28 years after Henryâs death. In 1940, a statue of Prince Henry the Navigator was erected in Fall River by the people of New England of Portuguese descent.