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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. Fort Henrietta Park is located on the east side of the river but the actual site of Fort Henrietta is on the west bank.
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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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| * [http://echo-oregon.com/history.html Echo, Oregon]
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| * [http://www.tomlaidlaw.com/clickable/henrietta.html Fort Henrietta]
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| Source:
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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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