History
Named for Jerome Fay, the original settler who came in 1850 and farmed at what was the junction of the Little Calumet River and Stoney Creek, Fay's Point had been frequented by Indians and traders from the Vincennes Trail.
As Blue Island and Chicago boomed, it was realized that a Canal to connect the Great Lakes and the Mississippi was possible and in 1920 the Cal-Sag channel opened along where Stoney Creek flowed. Fay's Point still has some of the ancient cottonwoods along where the original Stoney Creek streambed flowed.
The 1950's and the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway widened the canal and removed the old locks that were at Fay's Point. The Cal-Sag is now both a working river and a recreational waterway and is part of the Great American Loop.
