Fort Snelling - Wikipedia
WEBFort Snelling is a former military fortification and National Historic Landmark in the U.S. state of Minnesota on the bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. The military site was initially named Fort Saint Anthony, but it was renamed Fort Snelling once its construction was completed in 1825.
Historic Fort Snelling - Minnesota Historical Society
WEBLearn stories of the military fort and its surrounding area, home to a wide history that includes Native peoples, trade, soldiers and veterans, enslaved people, immigrants, and the changing landscape.
Archaeology at Fort Snelling - Minnesota Historical Society
WEBThe Fort Snelling Restoration Archaeology Project was essentially complete by the early 1980s. Almost 53,000 square feet had been excavated at the site of the original Fort Snelling military installation. An estimated half-million …
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WEBTravel through 10,000 years of human history to explore how the area known as Bdote by the Dakota became the site of Minnesota’s first National Historic Landmark – Historic Fort Snelling.
National Park Service - Founders and Frontiersmen (Fort Snelling)
WEBThe following year Col. Josiah Snelling assumed command and within 2 years essentially completed the fort. Originally called Fort St. Anthony, in 1825 it became known as Fort Snelling. Fort Snelling guarded the vast region between the …
Fort Snelling in the Expansionist Era, 1819–1858 | MNopedia
WEBThe U.S. Army built Fort Snelling between 1820 and 1825 to protect American interests in the fur trade. It tasked the fort’s troops with deterring advances by the British in Canada, enforcing boundaries between the region’s Native American nations, and preventing Euro-American immigrants from intruding on Native American land.
Fort Snelling: Overview - Minnesota Historical Society
WEBDec 20, 2023 · In 1819, U.S. troops began building the post on the high bluff above the area where the rivers meet. The new post was named Fort Snelling for Col. Josiah Snelling, the officer who oversaw most of its construction.
New Exhibition Examines the Many Converging Histories of …
WEBSep 21, 2023 · In the 1820s, the United States military built Fort Snelling at the site, eventually naming it after Colonel Josiah Snelling, who supervised the construction. After the U.S.-Dakota War of...
Where the Waters Meet: Stories of Historic Fort Snelling video ...
WEBIn 1960 Fort Snelling became Minnesota’s first National Historic Landmark. More recently, it was named the state’s first Site of Conscience and its first National Treasure. Today the fort exists as a symbol, one of pride and strength to some, to others, one of …
Fort Snelling as I Knew It - Open Rivers Journal
WEBThe Fort was started about 1819 on a strategic—and still imposing—promontory high above the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, a place known to the Dakota people as meaning “place where two rivers meet.”. The Fort never saw battle, but it nailed down the U.S. claim to this part of the continent.