Fort Snelling

How the Fort was Built

In 1805, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike of the United States Army conducted a treaty agreement with the Sioux Nation in which he acquired what is now known as Pike’s Purchase, two large tracts of land which included the Bdote now known as Fort Snelling. Shortly after the agreement, the United States Department of War built a chain of forts across that purchase with the intent to protect against a possible British invasion from Canada.

In 1819, Fort Saint Anthony was founded, but upon its completion in 1825, it was renamed Fort Snelling in honor of its architect, U.S. Army Colonel Josiah Snelling. Tha above image is a sketch of the site as it would have looked upon completion. 

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