Category:Fort Henrietta

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Fort Henrietta (1855-1856) - Built by Major Mark Chinn and a detachment of the First Oregon Mounted Rifles in Umatilla County in November 1855 during the Yakima War. It was named for Henrietta Haller, Major Granville Haller's wife who was Major Chinn's commander. The fort was 100 feet square with two round bastions, built of split cottonwood timbers on the west bank of Umatilla River near the town of Echo.

Source: Oregon Military History, Forts-Camps-Roads