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	Fort Crawford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Crawford was an outpost of the United States Army located in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin during the 19th Century.
		Fort Crawford was also part of a string of forts built along the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway that included Fort Winnebago in Portage, Wisconsin and Fort Howard in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
		Following the completion of Fort Crawford, the garrison was engaged primarily in peacekeeping between the new white settlers arriving in the region and Wisconsin's Native American tribes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Crawford (1279 words)

	Fort Tours \| Crawford Fight on Chick Bend Mountain
		When Crawford fired, the stillness of the mountain began to reverberate the report of his gun, and the red man fell to the ground, where he began to groan and moan.
		Crawford and his son fired at these Indians also while they were carrying their wounded comrade under the cliff.
		Crawford was wounded under the arm or in his shoulder, and a portion of the bullet was removed by Dr. C.
	www.forttours.com /pages/toccraw.asp (1083 words)

	History
		Fort Crawford was the location of at least two examples of harsh military justice.
		In the 1840's Fort Crawford was involved with the removal of the Winnebago from this area, but the frontier had moved faster than anyone predicted.
		The fort was used during the Civil War as a recruiting center and as a hospital housing some wounded soldiers.
	www.fortcrawfordmuseum.com /history.html (770 words)

	Archaeology - Territorial Forts of Wisconsin
		Fort Winnebago was erected in 1828, on a scenic hillside between the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers near modern Portage.
		The fort served as the linchpin of the fur trade, commanding the crucial portage that funneled furs and material from the Mississippi drainage to the Great Lakes and on to the cities of the East Coast.
		The first Fort Crawford (1816-1829) was built on the banks of the Mississippi River, over the ruins of Fort McKay (also known as Fort Shelby), a British post destroyed during the War of 1812.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /archaeology/forts.asp (1047 words)

	Highlights at the Wisconsin Historical Society
		Fort Crawford flooded during construction in 1816, and again in 1821, 1822, and 1826.
		Future President Zachary Taylor (1848-1850) commanded Fort Crawford from 1829 to 1830 and again from 1832 to 1837, and is credited with finishing construction of the second fort as well as the construction of the military road to Fort Winnebago.
		The fort was reconstructed as a Works Progress Administration project in the 1930s and, until 1995, the fort's hospital was owned by the State Medical Society of Wisconsin and operated as The Museum of Medical Progress.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /highlights/archives/2006/11/fort_crawford.asp (510 words)

	Alabama Forts
		A settlers' stockaded fort somewhere on the west-side of the Tombigbee River.
		The fort was a one-acre stockade around Samuel Mims' garrison house and several cabins, manned by 265 militiamen and their families.
		A CSA earthwork fort that was unfinished at the end of the war.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/al.html (1434 words)

	Fort Tours \| Northeast Texas
		The Fort Houston Cemetery remains in use as a public burial ground and as a reminder of the early history of the area.
		Fort Saint Louis de Carloretta was located more than 300 miles northwest of Natchitoches, Louisiana, near a Caddo Indian Village on the Texas side of the Red River in the southeast corner of present-day Lamar County.
		This fort (either family or Texas) was built near Hallsville in the lawless Neutral Zone between Louisiana and Texas in 1839, to protect settlers from Indians, renegades, and outlaws.
	www.forttours.com /pages/hmnetexas.asp (4499 words)

	Second Ft Crawford
		This past summer and fall, the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center was involved with a Phase III excavation at the Second Fort Crawford military fort in Prairie du Chien.
		The foundations of this fort were found during the concrete stripping and deep water and sewer trenching construction of Beaumont Road.
		Along the sidewalks and grass boulevards bordering Beaumont Road, the outlines of the fort are marked with limestone stamped and colored concrete illustrating where the road crosses the fort foundations.
	www.uwlax.edu /mvac/SpecificSites/FtCrawford.htm (716 words)

	Emmet Crawford, Captain, United States Army
		Emmet Crawford was in overall charge of Apache scouts after General George Crooks's return to the Department of Arizona in 1882.
		Emmet Crawford was the second of four sons of William and Jemima Crawford of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (according to the 1850 U.S. Census).
		In 1986, the descendants of Zachary Crawford were invited to the centennial celebrations of the town and served as grand marshals of the centennial parade.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /ecrawford.htm (3029 words)

	the story of fort hand
		Fort Hand was built during the darkest days of Westmoreland County history.
		This fort was built near the McKibben house in the fall of 1777.
		Land for this monument was deeded to the Fort Hand Chapter on January 12, 1931, by the late John B. Kerns, owner of the farm.
	www.geocities.com /massyharbisonforthanddar/thestoryofforthand (496 words)

	FAM28.HTM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Crawford (if your lordship purposes to take the route of Pittsburgh), whom I took the liberty of recommending as a good woodsman, and well acquainted with the lands in that quarter, that he may be disengaged when we get to his house, which is directly on the communication.
		Crawford attended this convention, and was among the foremost in champaining the cause of American Liberty.
		Crawford had decided to wait until nightfall before attempting to attack the Indians but during the afternoon of the 5th the arrival of Butler's Rangers from Lower Sandusky as well as the arrival of some 140 Shawnee waniors to reinforce the Delawares and Wyandots caused the Americans to call a council of war.
	thorin.adnc.com /~galliher/FAM28.HTM (14264 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The fort was abandoned and troops removed in 1856, but the fort was used again during the Civil War for recruiting and for an overflow hospital.
		Built from surplus limestone sold by the government after the construction of Fort Crawford, the house was erected on property owned by Jane’s maternal relatives, the Brisbois.
		A monument to Robert Lester, the Sheriff of Crawford County killed in the line of duty in 1844, when Wisconsin was still a territory, is located at the entrance to the Sheriff's Department headquarters at the Courthouse.
	www.prairieduchien.org /first/visitor/history.htm (3153 words)

	Effigy Mounds NM: Historic Resource Study (Chapter 6)
		Fort Crawford was abandoned in 1826 because periodic flooding of the low-lying island upon which it was located had so damaged the post as to render it uninhabitable.
		Serious flooding occurred in 1822 and 1824, and the repeated inundation of the fort was among the reasons that the garrison was reassigned to Fort Snelling (Minnesota) in 1826.
		In 1829 Captain T. Smith and soldiers from Fort Crawford built a water-powered sawmill on the Yellow River approximately 3.5 miles upstream from the stream's confluence with the Mississippi and approximately 6 to 8 miles from Prairie du Chien to produce lumber for construction of the new fort.
	www.nps.gov /efmo/web/hrs/hrs6.htm (5747 words)

	Fort Valley, Georgia - City History
		Fort Valley was founded in the 1820s as a Native American trading post at the intersection of two early Indian trails.
		Fort Valley was chartered by a legislative act approved on March 3, 1856, with C.D. Anderson, William H. Hollinshead, William I. Greene, A.D. Kendrick and D.N. Austin appointed as commissioners.
		The Fort Valley High and Industrial School, chartered in 1895, and the State Teachers and Agricultural College of Forsyth, founded in 1902, were consolidated in 1939 to form Fort Valley State College.
	www.fortvalleyusa.com /history.cfm (2627 words)

	AKValley.com--Fort Crawford
		It was therefore deemed necessary to erect a fort to cover this pathway, and to serve as a rallying point for scouts, as well as to afford protection to troops who were intended to garrison it.
		In the spring of 1778 as the inroads of the Indians seemed to increase, one of the first duties assigned Colonel William Crawford, who in May of 1778 took command of the Virginia Regiment station in the Western Department, was the building of this fort.
		It served all the purposes of a frontier stockade fort.
	www.akvalley.com /history/forts/fortcrawford/fortcrawford.shtml (364 words)

	CRAWFORD FAMILY
		Charles H CRAWFORD, the father of Thirza, was born to Charles CRAWFORD and Mary HEWITT.
		Crawford sold out and bought a ranch on the Teton, resided one year upon it, and finally returned to Benton and again established himself as a liveryman.
		Crawford owns an interest in some very productive coal mines in Meagher Co. He was once elected city marshal of Benton, but resigned in order to give his whole attention to his livery business.
	www.smith-richardsonfamilytree.com /toppage2.htm (766 words)

	Crawford County, Wisconsin History - Chapter 12
		Commencing at Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien, the road ran to Bridgeport.
		"Military road from Fort Crawford, by Winnebago, to Fort Howard, at Green Bay; Commencing at Prairie du Chien, and running as far east as to the Blue Mounds, this road is laid on the ridge dividing the waters flowing toward the north from those flowing toward the south.
		Caddle, while chaplain of the fort, formed a Church of the few communicants of Prairie du Chien, and of the officers and ladies of the fort, which he called Trinity, but was obliged, for most of the Church officers, to elect non-communicants.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/wi/county/crawford/history/chap12.htm (2122 words)

	Fort McIntosh
		By 1850, the fort was renamed in honor of Lieutenant Colonel James Simmons McIntosh a hero in the Battle of Molino del Rey on September 26, l847.
		Forts Worth, Graham, Gates, Croghan, Scott, Lincoln, Duncan, and McIntosh were established around this time to guard the frontier.
		Fort McIntosh was named in memory of this officer and war hero.
	laredo.cc.tx.us /campus/campus_history.htm (611 words)

	National Park Service - Founders and Frontiersmen (Prairie du Chien)
		In 1816 U.S. troops erected Fort Crawford on St. Feriole Island, and the town became a major outpost of the American fur trade, which continued through the 1830's.
		Fort Crawford was of considerable importance on the Northwest military frontier during the period of pioneer American settlement of the country west of the Great Lakes.
		At the fort, in 1825 the United States signed the treaties of Prairie du Chien with the tribes in the region.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/founders/sitec48.htm (1102 words)

	Explore Crawford County, Wisconsin - attractions, parks, and festivals with links to shopping, hotels, business ...
		Crawford County is the heart of the Upper Mississippi bluff country with land surrounded by the last glaciers and sculpted by the melt waters.
		Crawford County's supper clubs, family restaurants, delis, bar and grills, fast food and specialty restaurants offer unlimited dining options, from exotic ethnic preparations served in authentic international settings to rugged frontier fare served in historic inns and taverns or burgers and fries on the run.
		The Prairie Du Chien Museum was formerly the Fort Crawford Medical Museum, a medical building constructed in the 1830's and is where Dr. William Beaumont did ground-breaking research on human digestion.
	www.explorewisconsin.com /countypages/crawford.html (1619 words)

	Fort Snelling Page 1
		The country had the need for forts in the wilderness to at first protect the Indians from the settlers and later to protect the settlers from the Indians, as the settlers moved west.
		In September 1805, Lt. Zebulon Pike was sent to scout the land of the upper Mississippi for a suitable place to build a fort.
		Fort Snelling, the fort is interpreted in the year, circa 1827
	civilwartraveler.bravepages.com /Ftsnlg/FtSnl1.htm (331 words)

	Fort Phantom Hill Rendezvous
		That's why Crawford pitched a tent at Fort Phantom Hill the night before the very first Fort Phantom Rendezvous (held on October 30, 1999) and endured the unpredictable West Texas weather, which brought fierce winds, rains and lightening.
		Crawford spent the day of the 1999 and 2001 Rendezvous doing just that -- sharing his personal "living history" experiences with visitors and talking about what life might really have been like at the fort in the 1800s.
		The actual 5th Infantry unit founded Fort Phantom in November 1851 and was in every major battle of the US-Mexican War (1846-1848).
	www.fortphantom.org /fort/ftphantm.nsf/rendevous?openpage (623 words)

	Prairie du Chien - A Crawford County Community
		Prairie du Chien is located in the southern portion of Crawford County along the Mississippi River.
		It was here in 1829 that the second Fort Crawford was built to project the power and interests of the U.S. government upon the new frontier.
		It is the largest community in Crawford County and also the county seat.
	www.crawfordcountywi.com /communities/prairieduchien.htm (262 words)

	Crawford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Crawford sprang up as a tent city on land owned by homesteader-newspaper correspondent William E. Annin in 1886 when the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad pushed through the Nebraska Panhandle.
		Named for Army Captain Emmet Crawford, a Fort Robinson soldier, the city lies in the White River Valley in Pine Ridge country and serves an extensive cattle ranching and farming area.
		Crawford has been host or home to such personages as Sioux Chief Red Cloud; former desperado David (Doc) Middleton; poet-scout John Wallace Crawford; frontierswoman Calamity Jane; Army scout Baptiste (Little Bat) Garnier, shot down in a saloon; military surgeon Walter Reed, conqueror of Yellow fever; and President Theodore Roosevelt.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /publish/markers/texts/crawford.htm (237 words)

	Crawford County Attractions
		Crawford County has a wealth of historical sites and markers, attractions, parks, activities, and scenic areas for your enjoyment.
		The fort was compelled to surrender on July 20 and was re-named Fort McKay by the British.
		Site of the Battle of Prairie du Chien during the War of 1812 and of the First Fort Crawford where three important Indian treaties were signed, home of the Villa Louis.
	www.crawfordcountywi.com /crawford_county_attractions.htm (2425 words)

	Effigy Mounds NM: An Administrative History (Appendix A)
		Fort Crawford's troops were relocated to Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
		Recognizing the failure of the council of 1825 to end clashes among the tribes, the Army reopened Fort Crawford.
		The U.S. government convened a second council at Fort Crawford, and extended the boundary between the Sioux and the Sac and Fox twenty miles on each side of the 1825 boundary line, creating a forty-mile-wide "neutral zone." This attempt also failed to bring peace to the region.
	www.nps.gov /efmo/web/adhiaa.htm (3212 words)

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		The Second Fort Crawford was a large American military garrison established in 1829; it was occupied by soldiers until about 1856 and later was used for small military operations.
		The fort’s soldiers also participated in the 1832 Blackhawk War and were directly involved with the removal of the Winnebago (Ho-Chuck) from Wisconsin to the Neutral Ground in Iowa in 1840.
		ARCH 498/598 Seminar in Archaeology: “Fort Crawford Museum Field School” 2 credits (UG/GRAD) This is a week long event, including both field and possibly laboratory experience, and is a well-rounded opportunity for K-12 educators and others who want to learn about the process of archaeology.
	www.uwlax.edu /mvac/EventsDisplays/FortCrawfordFieldSchool.doc (326 words)

	Miscellaneous Crawford County, AR, Obituaries
		She is survived by her husband, Bob; one daughter, Joann Dunaway of Fort Smith; three grandchildren, Cheryl Gentry of 88 Community and Wayne Mantooth and Rita Noblin, both of Fort Smith; and six great-grandchildren.
		She was a board member of the Crawford County Fair Association, charter board member of the Northwest Arkansas Regional Library Association and Mulberry Library Board and former member of the board of the Mulberry Bank.
		She was a homemaker, attended the Trinity Church of the Nazarene in Fort Smith, last member of her immediate family and widow of Ernest Carter.
	www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/ar/ar-crawford1.htm (7256 words)

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