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	fort-snelling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Fort Snelling was built between 1820 and 1824 under the leadership of Colonel Josiah Snelling.
		Fort Snelling furnished troops for the Civil War and the Dakota Conflict of 1862 and was a training ground for later wars.
		Fort Snelling guarded the mouth of the Minnesota and overlooked the activities on the military reservation.
	www.isd77.k12.mn.us /schools/dakota/mnriver/fort-snelling.htm (207 words)

	FSTS 21HE0099 Old Fort Snelling
		Fort Snelling as it looked in the 1840s is shown in this painting by Henry Lewis.
		Fort Snelling had undergone great changes by 1946, when its long career as an army post finally came to an end.
		Outcry from preservationists persuaded the Minnesota Highway Department to revise its plans and resulted in the tunnel that carries Highway 5 beneath the fort instead of through it.
	www.fromsitetostory.org /tcm/21he0099ftsnelling/21he0099ftsnelling.asp (593 words)

	National Park Service - Founders and Frontiersmen (Fort Snelling)
		Troops from the fort quelled the Winnebagos in the Prairie du Chien area, and policed the Canadian border to prevent French-Canadian hunters from crossing it to hunt buffalo.
		Fort Snelling is a Registered National Historic Landmark relating primarily to Indian-military affairs in the trans-Mississippi West.
		Fort Snelling, the northernmost, guarded a large area extending from the Great Lakes to the Missouri River.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/founders/sitec24.htm (480 words)

	Fort Snelling
		A fort at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, for many years the northernmost military post in the land of the Sioux and Chippewa.
		Thus, Fort Snelling took part in the immediate response of the U.S. Navy to the Middle Eastern crisis of summer 1958.
		Through 1959 and 1963, Fort Snelling continued her training operations with marines in the Caribbean and on the Carolina coast.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/f4/fort_snelling.htm (231 words)

	Minnesota (Fort Snelling) Weather for 1826
		Minnesota (Fort Snelling) Weather for the year 1826
		Fort Snelling evidently weathered the storm without any loss of life, but to the southwest, the deep accumulations proved deadly to some thirty Sisseton and Sioux Indian lodges in transit across the prairies.
		Back at Fort Snelling, the river at the landing crested 20 feet above low water on the 24th, remaining at this level for several days.
	home.att.net /~station_climo/YR1826.htm (1631 words)

	Fort Snelling During the Winter of 1850-51
		Thus is painted a picture of the area in the winter of 1851-52 as a howling wilderness with only Indians, wolves, the garrison at the fort, and this one woman with her three children and aged mother in a lonely cabin.
		Forts Ridgely, Ripley, and Abercrombie served as frontier forts while Fort Snelling was turned into a supply depot.
		Thus, the actual picture of the area around Fort Snelling during the winter on 1851-52 is one of a raw frontier, but hardly a wilderness.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /hconnors/Beaton/Snelling.html (1165 words)

	Fort Snelling, Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Snelling is a former military fortification located at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
		In the decades since, the area of the original walled fort has been converted to an educational establishment operated by the Minnesota Historical Society, rebuilt to resemble its original appearance, and staffed during the spring, summer and early fall with costumed personnel interpreting life at the early post.
		Fort Snelling National Cemetery is located at Fort Snelling; many notable Minnesotans as well as deceased Minnesotan members of the United States Armed Forces are interred there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Snelling,_Minnesota (729 words)

	Fort Snelling State Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Snelling State Park is a 2,931 acre Minnesota state park at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers.
		The restoration of the fort had begun as early as 1957, and with the establishment of the park, such efforts received new momentum.
		Eventually, the remaining half of the fort, which had been occupied by the Department of Veterans Affairs was also donated to the park and restoration of the entire fort could proceed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Snelling_State_Park (1145 words)

	Faribault Lives and Times \| A Closer Look
		“The friendly Indians and their families, and the families of the prisoners, on their way to Fort Snelling, passed through Henderson, at which place the whites were very much angered and threw stones at the Indians, hitting some of them, and pulled the shawls and blankets off the women, and abused them much.
		a fence was built on the south side of the fort and close to it.
		Tepees of the imprisoned Dakota in the Fort Snelling enclosure, November, 1862.
	www.faribault.org /history2/Look/FortSnelling.html (634 words)

	Dakota Commemmorative March
		As both groups were paraded through Minnesota towns on their way to the camps, white citizens of Minnesota lined the streets to taunt and assault the defenseless Dakota.
		In late April of 1863 the remaining condemned men, along with the survivors of the Fort Snelling concentration camp, were forcibly removed from their beloved homeland in May of 1863.
		Governor Alexander Ramsey had declared on September 9, 1862 that "The Sioux Indians of Minnesota must be exterminated or driven forever beyond the borders of the state." The treatment of Dakota people, including the hanging in Mankato and the forced removal of Dakota people from Minnesota, were the first phases of Ramsey's plan.
	www.dakota-march.50megs.com /onered.html (887 words)

	Fort Dodge, Iowa - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		They had been dispatched from Fort Snelling, Minnesota to assist with the removal of the Meaquakie tribe to reservation lands and then travel overland to the Des Moines River and begin construction of a new military post.
		From the beginning the officers foresaw the growth of a city and laid out the principal fort buildings in a line which could someday form a city street.
		Spring of 1853 brought orders for Fort Dodge to be abandoned and the troops sent north to establish Fort Ridgely, Minnesota and deal with mounting problems with the Sioux.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /iowa_fort_dodge.htm (397 words)

	Historical Society to push Fort Snelling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The story of the fort, located on a commanding bluff overlooking the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, begins long before the Europeans arrived when it was home for Dakota people.
		In 1836, Dred Scott was brought to the fort as a slave.
		It's economically feasible to turn the fort into a year-round attraction, Keyes said, because not only is it in the heart of the growing metro region, but it's near the Mall of America, the expanded Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the new Hiawatha light-rail line.
	www.kstp.com /article/stories/S13068.html?cat=1 (930 words)

	National Park Service - Soldier and Brave (Fort Snelling)
		That same year Col. Josiah Snelling succeeded Leavenworth and began constructing a permanent fort on a 100-foot-high bluff overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
		In October 1969 the State acquired from the Veterans' Administration for inclusion in Fort Snelling State Park the old fort area, a 21.25-acre tract lying to the east and north of the adjacent freeway and surrounded on three sides by the modern Fort Snelling installation.
		When this volume went to press, it was still seeking title to a 141.39-acre tract comprising the later fort area, to the west and south of the freeway.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/soldier/siteb12.htm (648 words)

	Fort Snelling - The Eastman Forts
		Located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, Fort Snelling was established in 1819 on a bluff 100 feet above the river line.
		The fort was a frequent frontier assignment for Seth Eastman.
		The land was platted as a townsite, but with the onset of the Civil War the state of Minnesota stepped in and used the post as a training center for volunteers who joined the Union Army.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/art/P-P/Eastman/Snelling.htm (227 words)

	Company D, 4th Regiment Minnesota Infantry Volunteers (Martin L
		Regiment concentrated at Fort Snelling March, 1862, and moved to Benton Barracks, Mo., April 20-23, 1862.
		Between 8 October and 10 October 1861 all men were mustered in at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
		He was a farmer and lived in Roscoe, Minnesota with his wife Eliza, who was the sister of Private M. Webb, and his daughter Luella.
	www.webbdeiss.org /webb/cod4minn.html (2660 words)

	Fort Snelling Memorial Chapel Foundation - Our Chaplain
		At present, Chaplain Beale is the Chief of Chaplain Recruiting Branch for the Army at the U.S. Army Recruiting Command headquartered at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
		Prior to this assignment he was the AGR Staff Chaplain for the 88th Regional Readiness Command headquartered at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
		Chaplain Beale is married to the former Kathleen Moran and resides in Woodbury, Minnesota.
	www.fortsnellingmcf.org /chaplain.php (531 words)

	Company F, 1st Regiment Minnesota Infantry Volunteers (Lester A
		He was discharged from the 1st Regiment Minnesota Infantry on 24 October 1862, at Bolivar, Virginia pursuant to Orders 154 and 162 from the War Department, at which time he joined the U.S. Regular Army, probably to receive bonus pay.
		He is listed as the sole member of the 6th Regiment US Cavalry on the Garrison Rolls of Fort Snelling, and assigned to the Detachment of Invalids and Convalescents starting May 1863, but in the hospital almost the entire time through early the next year.
		In February 1864 his clothing account was not settled, to the amount of $12.03, and at the time of his discharge he had drawn clothing to the amount of $30.04.
	www.webbdeiss.org /webb/cof1minn.html (1302 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Application
		Due to increasing populations of the gray wolf in Minnesota, there are concerns over human and wolf interactions and the potential threat gray wolves pose to human safety.
		The gray wolf was reclassified from endangered to threatened in 1978 in Minnesota.
		The applicant requests an amendment to allow the take (trapping, removing, humanely euthanizing, and/or relocating) of gray wolves throughout Minnesota in accordance with 50 CFR 17.32, if the wolf or wolves are determined to constitute a demonstrable but nonimmediate threat to human safety.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/2002/January/Day-11/e684.htm (806 words)

	Historic Fort Snelling
		Fort Snelling is a historical landmark and was originally built in the early 1800s.
		Fort Snelling is situated along the Mississippi River.
		Fort Snelling, for the most part, was a little city in the wilderness.
	www.visi.com /~heyyousir/snelling.htm (1505 words)

	FORT SCOTT: Outpost On The Indian Frontier
		Construction of a military road extending from Fort Snelling, Minnesota, to Fort Towson on the Red River in Texas began two years later.
		The War Department abandoned Fort Wayne in Oklahoma on May 26, 1842 and ordered the garrison of dragoons to relocate to the new outpost in the Kansas Territory.
		The purpose of the dragoons stationed at Fort Scott were to protect the freighters traveling over the Santa Fe Trail and suppress unrest among the Indians.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/kansas_history/77314 (498 words)

	Fort Tours \| Fort Snelling
		The full living history program with costumed guides is presented on Wednesdays through Sundays during the summer, and on weekends in May, September and October.
		The Fort's costumed guides demonstrate crafts, present historical skits and practice military drill and weapons firings.
		At the junction of Minnesota Highways 5 and 55, one mile east of the Twin Cities International Airport.
	www.forttours.com /pages/tocftsnelling.asp (297 words)

	Fort Snelling State Park: Minnesota DNR
		Trails also allow visitors to hike up to the historic Fort Snelling for a view of military life in the 1820s.
		Fort Snelling State Park is located on Post Road off State Highway 5, just west of the main terminal exit for the International Airport.
		For information about activities in the Fort Snelling State Park, see the event calendar on the Department of Natural Resources Website at www.dnr.state.mn.us.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /state_parks/fort_snelling/index.html (475 words)

	Minnesota (Fort Snelling) Weather for 1822
		Minnesota (Fort Snelling area) Weather for the year 1822
		Colonel Snelling went to the area where the object supposedly landed the following morning, "but the ground was marshy and he found no trace of the meteoric stone" [Williams, 1881].
		On this same afternoon, Fort Howard (Green Bay, Wisconsin) noted -10 F and Fort Crawford -11 F. This introduced the coldest December ever to be recorded in the local vicinity (mean temperature: 2 F).
	home.att.net /~station_climo/YR1822.htm (1674 words)

	Minnesota Author Biographies Project: Maud Hart Lovelace
		One wing of the Minnesota Valley Regional Library in Mankato was named for her in 1977.
		Minnesota: The Land of Sky-tinted Waters: A History of the State and its People.
		This pilot database compiled and maintained by the Minnesota Historical Society.
	people.mnhs.org /authors/biog_detail.cfm?PersonID=Love277 (358 words)

	Fort Snelling, Minnesota
		FORT SNELLING, MINNESOTA, RENDEZVOUS OF THE MINNESOTA VOLUNTEERS.—[SKETCHED BY W. either by a night-breeze, or some ship with which we might act in concert, and so beat off this scoundrel, our doom must, in all human probability, be indeed a fearful one.
		But it was of no use to give way to despair ; and darkness having now closed in, we extinguished every light on board, even in the binnacle, and enforced the strictest silence fore and aft in the ship.
		We dared not yet congratulate ourselves on being in safety, but squaring the yards we ran dead before the rapidly-increasing breeze for the rest of the night; but the morning broke dull and squally, and after one rapid glance around we came to the glorious certainty that our enemy was no longer in sight.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/civil-war/1861/september/fort-snelling.htm (874 words)

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	USS Fort Snelling LSD-30 Reunion Proposal 2005
		Here is the link to the official 2005 USS Fort Snelling Reunion.
		Since 2005 is the 50th year of the commissioning of the USS Fort Snelling, perhaps we should have a reunion in the city for which she was named.
		We could contact the historical society, the mayor and plan a special time for the reunion, meet the people from the place for which she was named and have a great time.
	www.aworldwide.com /LSD-30-04 (154 words)

	Fort Snelling bed and breakfast & inns. Find the perfect Fort Snelling B&B lodging on BedandBreakfast.com.
		Ann Bean Mansion - Stillwater, MN Quality Assured Inn of the Minnesota* Bed & Breakfast Guild.
		James A Mulvey Residence Inn - Stillwater, MN Quality Assured Inn of the Minnesota* Bed & Breakfast Guild.
		Also noted is the approximate distance from Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
	www.bedandbreakfast.com /fort-snelling-minnesota.html (543 words)

	Grand Excursion Preview — Fort Snelling to Minneapolis, Minnesota
		After visiting the nearly completed fort in 1824, Major General Winfield Scott recommended changing the fort’s name from Fort St. Anthony to Fort Snelling.
		In the 10 miles from above the falls to Fort Snelling the combined drop through the three locks and dams is over 111 feet.
		John O. Anfinson is a historian with the MNRRA and author of The River We Have Wrought, A History of the Upper Mississippi (University of Minnesota Press).
	www.big-river.com /GEMJ4.html (1276 words)

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