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Historic Sites & Monuments

• Fort Abercrombie State Historic Site
  816 Broadway Street; P.O. Box 148 • Abercrombie, ND 58001
  701-553-8513
  Open year-round, Fort Abercrombie was established in 1858, on the Red River in Dakota Territory by Lieutenant Colonel John J. Abercrombie, making it the first permanent United States military fort established in what was to become North Dakota. Known as "the Gateway to the Dakotas," the Fort was moved to its present location on the eastern edge of present-day Abercrombie, Richland County in 1859, due to the threat of flooding. The Fort guarded wagon trains and steamboat traffic on the Red River, was a supply base for wagon trains headed to the Montana border and was the site of a six- week siege by the Sioux in 1862, before it was abandoned in 1877. Fort Abercrombie State Historic Site is divided into two parts, recreational facilities, a local museum and the actual historic site. A reconstructed stockade, three reconstructed block-houses, and one original fort guard-house are on the site.