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| [[Category:Oregon Forts]]
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| [[Category:Oregon Trail Forts]]
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| [[Image:FortHenrietta.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Fort Henrietta Blockhouse]]
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| '''Fort Henrietta (1855-1856)''' - Built by Major [[Mark Chinn]] and a detachment of the [[First Oregon Mounted Rifles]] in Umatilla County in November 1855 during the [[Yakima War]]. It was named for Henrietta Haller, Major [[Granville Haller]]'s wife who was Major Chinn's commander. The fort was 100 feet square with two round bastions, built of split cottonwood timbers.
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| <googlemap lat="45.741715" lon="-119.198318" zoom="16" width="500" scale="yes" overview="yes" controls="large">
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| 45.741715, -119.198318, Fort Henrietta<br>(1855-1856)
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| </googlemap>
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| '''Location:''' Umatilla County, Oregon, west bank of Umatilla River near the town of Echo.
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| {{Mapit-US-cityscale|45.741715|-119.198318}}
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| * Elevation: 640
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| '''Links:'''
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| * [[Oregon Military History, Forts-Camps-Roads]]
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| * Converse, George L., ''A Military History of the Columbia Valley: 1848-1865'', Pioneer Press Books, Walla Walla, Washington, 1989, ISBN 0-936546-16-6
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