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| [[Category:North Dakota Forts]]
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| [[Category:State Park]]
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| '''Fort Ransom (1867-1872)''' - Established 18 Jun 1867 by Capt. (Bvt Major) [[George H. Crosman]] of the [[10th U.S. Infantry]] to keep the Sioux Indians in check and to protect the Dakota-Montana trail. Fort Ransom was named for Brig. Gen. [[Thomas E. G. Ransom]] who died 29 Oct 1864 while serving in the [[U.S. Civil War]].
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| ==Fort Ransom History==
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| Fort Ramsom was sited by Brig. Gen. [[Alfred H. Terry]] as a 200 man post designed to protect the Dakota-Montana trail. The fort was distinctive because of the 8' dry moat surrounding the breastworks. Resources were scarce at the fort and even water had to be hauled from a spring 600 yards away. The fort was abandoned on 31 Jul 1872 after Fort Seward was established (27 May 1872) and materials from the fort were used in the construction of Fort Seward. The military post was transfered to the Interior Department 22 Jul 1884.
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| ==Current Status==
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| Although building locations and the dry moat, once eight feet deep, are still clearly discernible, nothing else remains of the original fort or its twelve-feet-high sod and log stockade except a marker on the site.
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| <googlemap lat="46.518521" lon="-97.940401" zoom="17" width="500" scale="yes" overview="yes" controls="large">
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| 46.518591, -97.940374, Fort Ransom<br>(1867-1872)
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| </googlemap>
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| '''Location:'''
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| <<Location Text>>
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| {{Mapit-US-cityscale|46.518591|-97.940374}}
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| * Elevation: 1350'
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| '''Links:'''
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| * [http://www.state.nd.us/hist/sitelist.htm North Dakota Historic Sites]
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| * [http://www.sdgfp.info/parks/Learning/DakotaForts.htm Military Forts in the Dakotas]
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| * [http://www.falmr.org/dakforts.htm Dakota Territory Forts]
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| '''Sources:'''
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| * Field, Ron, ''[[Forts of the American Frontier 1820-91|Forts of the American Frontier 1820-91: Central and Northern Plains]]'', Osprey Publishing, Elms Court, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LP, United Kingdom, 2005, ISBN: 1 84176 775 1
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| '''Visited:''' No
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| ==Picture Gallery==
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| {{PictureHead}}
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| <gallery>
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| </gallery>
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