|
|
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| [[Category:All]]
| |
| [[Category:North Dakota Forts]]
| |
| [[Category:Restored]]
| |
| [[Category:Preserved]]
| |
| [[Category:State Park]]
| |
| [[Category:North Dakota Fort Trail]]
| |
| [[Image:FortTotten Plan.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Fort Totten Plan]]
| |
| [[Image:FortTotten Today.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Fort Totten]]
| |
| {{Clr}}
| |
| '''Fort Totten (1867-1890)''' - Established 17 Jul 1867 by Capt. [[Samuel A. Wainwright]] of the [[31st U.S. Infantry]] and named after Brig. Gen. [[Joseph Gilbert Totten]], Chief Engineer of the Army. The fort was used to police the surrounding Indian reservation, guard transportation routes and aid the Dakota Sioux Indians.
| |
| ==Fort Totten History==
| |
|
| |
|
| The post was abandoned in 1890 and was transferred to the Interior Department 4 Oct 1890. On 5 Jan 1891 it became the property of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and served as an Indian boarding school until 1959.
| |
| ==Current Status==
| |
| Fort Totten is one of the best preserved military forts of the Dakota frontier era.
| |
| {|
| |
| |
| |
| <googlemap lat="47.977469" lon="-98.993168" zoom="17" width="500" height="500" scale="yes" overview="yes" controls="large">
| |
| 47.977599, -98.993382, Fort Totten(1867-1890)
| |
| </googlemap>
| |
| |valign="top"|
| |
| '''Location:'''
| |
| 612 East Blvd Ave, Bismarck, ND 58505-0830
| |
|
| |
| {{Mapit-US-cityscale|47.977599|-98.993382}}
| |
| * Elevation: 1500'
| |
| |}
| |
| '''Links:'''
| |
| * [http://www.state.nd.us/hist/totten/totten.htm Fort Totten State Historic Site]
| |
| * [http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/govdocs/text/forttotten.html Fort Totten History]
| |
|
| |
| '''Sources:'''
| |
|
| |
| '''Visited:''' No
| |
| ==Picture Gallery==
| |
| {{PictureHead}}
| |
| <gallery>
| |
| </gallery>
| |
|
| |
| __NOTOC__
| |
| __NOEDITSECTION__
| |
Latest revision as of 19:00, 9 June 2007
This category currently contains no pages or media.