Category:Fort Dent: Difference between revisions

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-[[Category:Washington Forts]]
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-[[Category:City Park]]
-'''Fort Dent (1855-?)''' - established by the [[Washington National Guard]], Company B, [[9th U.S. Infantry]] led by [[Frederick T. Dent]] and named after him. It was built as a blockhouse to protect settlers after the battle of Seattle on the orders of Territorial Governor [[Isaac Stevens]]. [[Frederick T. Dent]] became a Union colonel in the [[U.S. Civil War]], and later an aide-de-camp to President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. The fort was abandoned sometime before 1876.
-A King County park was created on the site in 1972 and the county operated the park until 2001 when ownership was transferred to the City of Tukwila.
-'''Location:'''  City of Tukwila, King County, Washington
-{{Mapit-US-cityscale|47.4740|-122.2609}}
-'''Links:'''
-* [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=4114 History Link]
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