Fort Saint Antoine
History of Fort Saint AntoineEstablished in 1686 by Nicolas Perrot on Lake Pepin near present day Stockholm in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. Nicolas Perrot formally took possession of the entire region west of the Great Lakes in the name of the French King Louis XIV on 8 May 1689 at Fort Saint Antoine. Abandoned in 1689. In 1855 a surveyor noted that the fort site occupied "a space of about sixty by forty-five feet, and stood about seventy feet back from the point of highest water mark on the lake shore." Current StatusMarker located on Lake Pepin two miles southeast of town.
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