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| [[Category:Washington Forts]]
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| [[Image:FortBellingham UW-45311626102001 1232.jpg|400px|left|thumb|Fort Bellingham Blockhouse (University of Washington Archive)]]
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| [[Image:Fort Bellingham Plan na.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Fort Bellingham Plan, National Archives]]
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| '''Fort Bellingham (1856-1860)''' - Built by U.S. Army Captain [[George E. Pickett]] and Company D of the [[9th U.S. Infantry]] Regiment out of [[:Category:Fort Steilacoom|Fort Steilacoon]]. Construction started 26 Aug 1856 on a bluff overlooking Bellingham Bay. The fort was built to prevent attacks by Indians from Canada and the Russian territory on the bayside villages of Fairhaven, Sehome and Whatcom.
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| ==Description==
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| In his report of December 1858 Inspector General [[Joseph Mansfield]] wrote, “The Barracks, storehouses & officers quarters, are within an enclosed square, of about 80 yards the side. The fort is made of pallisades set in the ground, loopholed for musketry and flanked by two Blockhouses two stories high, pierced for mountain howitzers and loopholed: and is provided with 3 gates ... All the buildings are one story. The buildings were wood framed. Barracks had a mess hall, & kitchen, & bakery attached, and was ample."
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| The fort was abandoned on 28 Apr 1860.
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| ==Current Status==
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| Only traces of the fort remain today but the Officer's that housed [[George E. Pickett]] and his Indian wife are preserved at 910 Bancroft St. on the site of the fort.
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| <googlemap lat="48.755977" lon="-122.485456" type="map" zoom="14" width="500" scale="yes" overview="yes" controls="large" icons="http://www.fortwiki.com/mapicons/icon{label}.png>
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| (F) 48.755977, -122.485456, Fort Bellingham<br>(1856-1863)
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| </googlemap>
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| '''Location:'''
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| Bellingham Bay and Watcom Creek, Bellingham, Washington<br>910 Bancroft St., Bellingham Washington
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| {{Mapit-US-cityscale|48.755977|-122.485456}}
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| * Elevation: 60'
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| '''Links:'''
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| * [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7098 History Link]
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| * [http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/cpnws/default.htm Center for Pacific Northwest Studies]
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| '''Sources:'''
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| # Hart, Herbert M., ''[[Tour Guide to Old Western Forts]]'', Pruett Publishing Co., Boulder CO, 1980, ISBN: 0-87108-568-2, page 180.
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| # Frazer, Robert W., ''[[Forts of the West]]'', University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1965, ISBN: 0-8061-1250-6, page 167.
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| '''Visited:''' No
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| ==Picture Gallery==
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| </gallery>
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