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| [[Category:Minnesota Forts]]
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| [[Image:FortSnelling 1840s.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Fort Snelling in 1840s. Painting by Henry Lewis]]
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| [[Image:Forts MN WI 1820.gif|thumb|300px|right|Map of Minnesota/Wisconsin Forts 1820]]
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| '''Fort Snelling (1820-1946)''' - Construction began on the permanent fort in 1820 and was completed in 1825. The fort was abandoned in 1857, but reactivated in 1861 as a state training center during the Civil War. Federal troops returned in 1866, making the post the headquarters of the vast Military Department of Dakota. The post was used as a recruitment and training depot during the two World Wars. Four of the original sixteen buildings still stand. Reconstructed in 1969.
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| Located east of the fort was an American Fur Co. post. Located south of the fort was a Columbia Fur Co. post.
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| '''Location:''' located at the junction of Minnesota Highways 5 and 55, one mile east of the Twin Cities International Airport
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| * Latitude: 44.88583
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| * Longitude: -93.17778
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| '''Links:'''
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| * [http://www.mnhs.org/places/sites/hfs/history.html Minnesota Historical Society]
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| '''Books:'''
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