Fort Snelling

ID: 1113
This file appears in: Historic Fort Snelling

Painter: Alfred Sederberg
Date: Approximately 1875
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: Historic Fort Snelling

By Jim Sazevich
Fort Snelling (constructed 1819-25), at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, was built to protect our northern borders from the British and to control development in the…