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	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 summer with costumed personnel reenacting life at the early post.
		The 2000 census listed Fort Snelling as an unorganized territory (a designation it has carried since it was founded) with a total population of 442.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Snelling,_Minnesota (671 words)

	fort-snelling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	Fort Snelling, Minnesota -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The fort's (A licensed medical practitioner) doctor began taking (The meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation) weather observations in January 1820.
		In the decades since, the area of the original walled fort has been converted to an educational establishment operated by the (Click link for more info and facts about Minnesota Historical Society) Minnesota Historical Society, rebuilt to resemble its original appearance, and staffed during the summer with costumed personnel reenacting life at the early post.
		The 2000 census listed Fort Snelling as an (Click link for more info and facts about unorganized territory) unorganized territory (a designation it has carried since it was founded) with a total population of 442.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/fort_snelling,_minnesota.htm (912 words)

	Fort Snelling National Cemetery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fort Snelling National Cemetery is located in Minneapolis, Minn. The original Fort Snelling was established in 1805 near the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers.
		The Fort Snelling cemetery was established in 1870 to serve as a burial ground for the soldiers who died while stationed at the post.
		Fort Snelling National Cemetery was established in 1939 with the first burial on July 5, of Capt. George H. Mallon, whose acts of heroism at Meuse-Argonne in France were recognized with the Congressional Medal of Honor.
	www.cem.va.gov /nchp/ftsnelling.htm (1355 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.
		Fort Snelling (LSD-30) was launched 16 July 1954 by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss.; sponsored by Mrs.
		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)

	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.
		The story of this long-running archaeological exploration and how it has added, not only to the accurate restoration and reconstruction of the old fort, but also to knowledge of what life was like there is told in "History Under the Floor Boards." This exhibit is located in one section of the former officers' quarters.
	www.fromsitetostory.org /tcm/21he0099ftsnelling/21he0099ftsnelling.asp (593 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)

	Free Spirits of Sweden - för Ursprungskulturer, Fort Snelling
		For almost 30 years, Fort Snelling was the hub of the Upper Mississippi and the meeting place of diverse cultures.
		Plans for the city of Fort Snelling were abandoned, however, with the outbreak of the Civil War.
		Fort Snelling became headquarters and supply base for the military Department of Dakota, which extended from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
	www.freespiritsofsweden.com /passet/kultur/historia/snelling/fortsnelling_eng.html (767 words)

	Fort Snelling State Park
		Fort Snelling State Park is located at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
		Fort Snelling State Park is adjacent to the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
		Situated near Historic Fort Snelling, the park is also adjacent to the Twin Cities International Airport and ranks as one of Minnesota's top 10 tourist attractions, with an average of over 400,000 annual visitors.
	www.nps.gov /miss/maps/model/fsnell.html (180 words)

	Camp Coldwater history
		Fort Snelling, New Hope, and Camp Coldwater, comprise all the settlements here; and St. Peters seems to have been used, by common consent, as a name for the whole settlement around the mouth of the St. Peters river, which empties into the Mississippi here, seven miles below the falls of St. Anthony.
		Because of the presence of the fort, this area, like the rest of the Fort Snelling reservation was a neutral territory, into which the U.S. government invited opposing Indian groups to come to negotiate.
		Interest in preserving portions of the Fort Snelling area began in the 1950s, when plans were made by the Transportation Department to build a new bridge across the Mississippi.
	www.tc.umn.edu /%7Ewhite067 (1682 words)

	Historic Fort Snelling
		The fort continued to be a presence for both the native population, settlers, and the US government for another 125 years.
		The Fort was also used as a supply base for the Dakota Territory and a training center for soldiers assigned to the Indian Campaigns, the Spanish American War, and World Wars I and II.
		The fort was decommissioned at the end of the war in 1945 and given to the Veterans Administration.
	www.nps.gov /miss/maps/model/fort.html (360 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)

	AllRefer.com - Fort Snelling (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Fort Snelling, on a bluff above the junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, SE Minn.; est.
		It served as a regional protective barrier and as a nucleus for settlement.
		Minneapolis grew on the fort reservation in the mid-1800s.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/E-FortSnel.html (141 words)

	Joe's Diner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I noticed that Fort Snelling was basically within the Minneapolis City limits.
		Fort Snelling State Park, however, was in a location quite different than many other state parks.
		I was too cheap to pay to enter the actual fort (I guess I didn't feel like learning that day), so I walked around the outside of it, and hiked one of their trails near the river.
	www.cs.rose-hulman.edu /~richeyje/jd/aboutme/rose/minn/snelling.shtml (754 words)

	Fort Snelling; Ch. 5; Floral Home 1857
		Snelling, true to the noble instinct of woman, would not allow her husband to brave the dangers and privations of the wilderness alone.
		The cabin of the keel boat in which she was a passenger, scarcely allowed her to stand upright, while the weather was exceedingly warm, and the musketoes [mosquitoes] were as annoying as in later days.
		The eldest could narrate the facts relative to their captivity; and because he cried, on seeing the brains of his little sister dashed out against a tree, and their parents cruelly murdered, he had a small portion of his scalp removed, which was an open sore at the time of the rescue.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/minn_1/minn_ch5.htm (1490 words)

	Fort Snelling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This historical novel set at Old Fort Snelling in the 1830s is a rich and romantic re-creation of the early settlement period in Minnesota's history.
		Fort Snelling National Cemetery is one of 120 national cemeteries across the country.
		A topographical sketch of a map of Fort Snelling drawn by Sergeant Joseph E. Heckle, together with descriptive notes written in its margins by Major Josiah H. Vose, gives important insights into the fort's construction and early operation.
	shop.mnhs.org /category.cfm?Category=147 (1132 words)

	MNHS.ORG: Historic Fort Snelling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In early December 2004, Historic Fort Snelling Site Manager Stephen Osman saw something he had never seen in more than thirty years at the site.
		In the spring of 1864, the regiment was assembled at Fort Snelling after eighteen months of outpost duty in Minnesota.
		Fort Snelling was temporary home to some twenty five thousand Union soldiers during the Civil War.
	www.state.mn.us /ebranch/mhs/places/hfscarving.html (447 words)

	USATODAY.com - Panel accepts plan to move Fort Snelling troops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The commission adopted the Department of Defense proposal to move Fort Snelling's 88th Regional Readiness Command, which acts as a headquarters for Army Reserve units in six Upper Midwest states, to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin.
		Willie Harris, a Fort Snelling spokesman, said it would be inappropriate for any high ranking officers at the base to make public statements on the Pentagon's decision.
		Fort McCoy is about 180 miles southeast of Fort Snelling, and about 35 miles east of La Crosse, Wis.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-08-24-MN-baseclosings_x.htm (442 words)

	Fort Snelling, frontier medicine, smallpox, Wounded Knee, Ohiyesa, Perry Millard, Medtronic, Paul Wellstone, Stephen N. ...
		Closer to home, Fort Snelling provided the early environment for developments that have made Minnesota, at the beginning of the 21st century, synonymous with the extension of life through medicine and public health.
		Post hospitals like the Fort Snelling Hospital were known for providing some of the best medical care in the country.
		Fort Snelling was a link in a chain of frontier outposts that Joseph Lovell, the Army's surgeon general, saw as essential for the contributions they could make to medical science.
	www.mbbnet.umn.edu /doric/ftsnelling.html (3504 words)

	FORT SAINT CHARLES
		Fort St. Charles was the point of departure for some of the most westerly explorations of its time and its use and maintenance helped lay the foundation for later development of the Northwest under the British.
		Fort St. Charles was the longest occupied French post in Minnesota and is the only French fort in the state where remains of a contemporary Indian habitation area have been located nearby.
		The fort stockade and corner bastions were erected during the summer of 1960, after a thorough research of old journals and records.
	www.entreeltd.com /fortStCharles.htm (7913 words)

	Z.M.PIKE, Minnesota Explorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The forts were needed to control potential enemies from outside and the growing trade, from inside.
		Fort Beauharnois was finally abandoned after the Treaty of Paris in 1763 gave the area to the British.
		Both survived and Snelling was appointed Commandant of the 5th Infantry with Regimental Headquarters at Fort St.Anthony in 1821.
	dlwgraphics.com /mnpike2.htm (3570 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 Snelling on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Memorial Day; In traditional fashion, the nation's war dead were remembered at Fort Snelling; Lakewood Cemetery injected modest revelry into its salute.(NEWS)
		Report: No evidence of theft at Fort Snelling cemetery; Hazardous waste concerns remain at the Minneapolis site, but a federal report says none appears to be near gravesites.(NEWS)
		At re-created forts, meet adventurers who shaped Upper Midwest.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/e/e-f1orts1nel.asp (463 words)

	Hail, Minnesota
		One of these, Fort Charles, was erected on the Minnesota side of the Lake of the Woods.
		In 1820, the camp was moved across the river and Col. Josiah Snelling began construction on Fort St. Anthony.
		A Company of soldiers sent out from Fort Ridgely was ambushed but a heroic defense of the post, containing hundreds of refugees, kept the Indians from attacking the more populous settlements on the north side of the river.
	www.genealogy.com /users/p/u/l/William-G-Pull/FILE/0001page.html (7516 words)

	History of Fort Snelling to be highlight of south metro meeting - Minnesota Senior News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Attend South Metro chapter’s next meeting and hear how Fort Snelling went from a country club of the army to a reception station in World War II.
		During WWII the 120-year-old fort processed 300,000 inductees, trained military police units and taught GIs everything from how to speak Japanese to how to operate foreign railroads.
		He actively researches the Civil War and is completing a book on Fort Snelling’s role in that conflict.
	front.mnseniors.org /0411snnov/southmetro.html (198 words)

	Historic Fort Snelling: Gun Shed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This wood-frame structure housed the fort's field artillery and wheeled vehicles.
		Inside the shed are 12- and 6-pounder field guns, their size determined by the weight of the solid cannon ball they fired.
		Here also is a replica of the Tilbury cart which Colonel Snelling recorded in his 1827 property inventory.
	www.state.mn.us /ebranch/mhs/places/sites/hfs/tour/gunshed.html (88 words)

	USS Fort Snelling (LSD 30)
		Named after the 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 -, the USS FORT SNELLING was the third THOMASTON - class dock landing ship and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name.
		Decommissioned on September 5, 1984, the FORT SNELLING was stricken from the Navy list on February 24, 1992.
		USS PONCE (LPD 15) collides with USS FORT SNELLING during a towing exercise which causes minor damage to PONCE's port side, mainly to the accommodation ladder and flight deck catwalk.
	navysite.de /ships/lsd30.htm (229 words)

	prescott
		Zachariah was employed as a sutler's clerk at the American fort at Detroit and Philander left in the fall for the area of today's Hastings, Minnesota where his employer, Louis Devotian, had sent up a temporary supply station for the new fort (Ft.Snelling) under construction at the mouth of the St.Peters River (Minnesota River).
		He was employed as an interpreter at the Fort and when Taliaferro (U.S.Indian Agent) helped create a Dakota farming community on the south shore of Lake Calhoun which he called "Eatonville", he employed Philander to teach the European methods of farming.
		As he was heading for the safety of near by Fort Ridgely on foot, he was killed by one of the raiding parties.
	www.usinternet.com /users/dfnels/prescott.htm (385 words)

	Historic Fort Snelling - Minneapolis-St Paul, MN, 55488 - Citysearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Soldiers from the fort built the first sawmill at St. Anthony Falls (now Minneapolis), and the first residents of St. Paul were moved there after being sheltered as immigrants.
		Fort Snelling is geared toward kids (and the kid inside the grown-ups).
		The Fort is open and it is a wonderful place to visit.
	twincities.citysearch.com /profile/11357483 (515 words)

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