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[[File:Fort Sisseton-Block House Interior.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|Fort Sisseton Blockhouse Interior Upper Floor.]]
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[[File:Fort Sisseton Cannon.jpeg|250px|thumb|left|Fort Sisseton Model 1857 Napoleon Bronze Cannon, original to the Fort.]]
[[File:Fort Sisseton Cannon.jpeg|250px|thumb|left|Fort Sisseton Model 1857 Napoleon Bronze Cannon, original to the Fort.]]
[[File:Fort Sisseton-Magazine.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|Fort Sisseton Powder Magazine.]]
[[File:Fort Sisseton-Magazine.jpeg|250px|thumb|left|Fort Sisseton Powder Magazine.]]
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[[File:Fort Sisseton Guardhouse.jpeg|250px|thumb|left|Fort Sisseton Guardhouse.]]
[[File:Fort Sisseton Guardhouse.jpeg|250px|thumb|left|Fort Sisseton Guardhouse.]]
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[[File:Fort Sisseton-Guardhouse Interior.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|Fort Sisseton Guardhouse Interior.]]

Revision as of 06:59, 6 July 2020

Fort Sisseton (1864-1889) - First established in 1864 as Fort Wadsworth (2) by Major John Clowney and named after Brigadier General James S. Wadsworth, who was mortally wounded, 8 May 1864, in the Battle of the Wilderness, in Virginia, during the U.S. Civil War. Renamed Fort Sisseton, 29 Aug 1876, after the local Sisseton Sioux Indian Tribe. Abandoned in 1889.

Fort Sisseton Doctor's Quarters.
Fort Sisseton Hospital.
Fort Sisseton Officer Quarters from the Parade. Commander's quarters on the right.
Fort Sisseton North Barracks.

History

Established 1 Aug 1864 as Fort Wadsworth by Maj. John Clowney, 30th Wisconsin Infantry, after the 1862 Sioux Indian uprising. Strategically located atop a tableland called Coteau des Prairies, the fort was built to control the hostile Indians and to protect travel routes to the goldfields in Idaho and Montana.

Fort Sisseton Blockhouse Exterior.
Fort Sisseton Blockhouse Interior Upper Floor.
Fort Sisseton Model 1857 Napoleon Bronze Cannon, original to the Fort.
Fort Sisseton Powder Magazine.
Fort Sisseton Powder Magazine Interior.
Fort Sisseton Guardhouse.
Fort Sisseton Guardhouse Interior.
Fort Sisseton Library and Schoolhouse.

The post was renamed Fort Sisseton, 29 Aug 1876, after the local Sisseton Sioux Indian Tribe, when it was discovered that the original name conflicted with a Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, New York, also named for BG James S. Wadsworth.

By the 1880s the need for the fort had disappeared and the post was turned over to the Interior Department for disposition 22 April 1889 and abandoned by the Army on 9 Jun 1889.

Current Status

Must See! Fort Sisseton State Park, National Historic Landmark. Restoration of the fort was begun in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration, WPA, and carried on to date.

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Location: Fort Sisseton State Park, Marshall County, South Dakota.

Maps & Images

Lat: 45.65773 Long: -97.53037

  • Multi Maps from ACME
  • Maps from Bing
  • Maps from Google
  • Elevation: 1,831'

Sources:

  • Roberts, Robert B., Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States, Macmillan, New York, 1988, 10th printing, ISBN 0-02-926880-X, page 733

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Visited: 5 Jul 2020