Fort ransomware
| Fort ransomware | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 |
|||
| Location in North Dakota | |||
|
|||
| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1880 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | North Dakota | ||
| County : | Ransom County | ||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 31 ′ N , 97 ° 56 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 70 (as of 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 87.5 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 0.8 km 2 (approx. 0 mi 2 ) of which 0.8 km 2 (approx. 0 mi 2 ) is land |
||
| Height : | 346 m | ||
| Postal code : | 58033 | ||
| Area code : | +1 701 | ||
| FIPS : | 38-27580 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1029016 | ||
Fort Ransom is a small town in Ransom County in the US state of North Dakota . The place is located on the Sheyenne River and emerged from a former border fort of the US Army.
history
Already about 5000 to 8000 years ago Indians lived in the valley of the Sheyenne River, who built so-called mounds as burial places. Presumably these inhabitants also made rock drawings in a large rock called Writing Rock today . Later the Hidatsa , Mandan and Sheyenne Indians lived and farmed in the valley, but prairie Indians such as Chippewa and Sioux also came here. The first known Europeans came to the valley in 1738 on a French expedition under Pierre de la Verendrye . Fur hunters and traders came to the region until the 1860s.
In 1867, Fort Ransom was built to protect travelers from Minnesota to Montana . The fort was named after Thomas EG Ransom , a general of the Union Army's volunteer units during the Civil War . On June 17, 1867, a battalion of the 10th US Infantry from Fort Wadsworth under Major George H. Crosman began construction of the facility. The soldiers used oak logs from the nearby Sheyenne River valley for construction. The fort was a rectangular structure, 100 meters long and 120 meters wide, which was fortified with a ditch and an approximately 3.6 meter high palisade made of wood and sod . Except for two buildings, the fort's buildings were single-story wooden structures. The crew quarters were on the north side of the facility. Other buildings were the quartermaster's building, the commandant's house, an infirmary, the guard house, a bakery as well as stables, warehouses and magazines. The Indian scouts' accommodations were outside the fence. An area of over 25 km² around the fort was declared a Fort Ransom Military Reservation .
As in many forts and settlements along the Frontier , everyday life in the fort was tough. A spring more than 500 meters away served for the water supply, the river more than 500 meters away served as a bathing place. A three-hectare vegetable garden was laid out near the fort, and hay was made for the horses in meadows five kilometers south of the fort. The garrison was supplied by wagon trains from Fort Abercrombie . In good weather, mail riders got from Fort Ransom via Fort Abercrombie to St. Paul within eight days , but snow in winter and floods of the Wild Rice River in spring cut the fort off from its connections.
With the construction of the northern Pacific Railroad , the importance of the wagon route to Montana quickly declined, and the US Army made the protection of the railroad a higher priority. In 1872 the fort was therefore abandoned and demolished, some of the material was reused to build Fort Seward near Jamestown in Stutsman County . The Military Reservation site was transferred to the Home Office on July 14, 1880, which sold it to settlers. Many of the settlers were from Norway. The Scandinavian immigrants practiced intensive agriculture and were open to new developments, so they first grew durum wheat in North Dakota in 1882 . A small museum in the visitor center of Fort Ransom State Park to the north of the village commemorates the Scandinavian traditions of the settlers .
Attractions
The former fort is located southwest of the village and is now a State Historic Site . Only the moat and the foundations of the fort are visible, a flagpole and an information board remind of the former military base. Fort Ransom State Park, five kilometers to the north, was named after the fort. The construction of the white plastered Standing Rock Church of the Lutheran congregation, which had existed since 1882, began in 1888 and the tower was completed in 1898.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Fort Ransom Writing Rock. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 24, 2011 ; Retrieved June 4, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Fort Ransom State Park. Retrieved June 4, 2011 .
- ↑ Gen. Thomas Ransom GHS Historical Marker. Retrieved May 27, 2011 .
- ↑ American Byways: Standing Rock Church. Retrieved May 27, 2011 .
