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The Old Fort Belle Fontaine Cemetery was established in 1809, when Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bissell moved the original Fort Belle Fontaine encampment to a new location. The cemetery was located about 100 yards or so southwest from the Cantonment buildings, which during the period of 1805 to 1826 had interments of at least 30–40 military ...
The Fort Belle Fontaine County Park is a unit of the park system of St. Louis County, Missouri. 305.6 acres in size, it is bordered by the Missouri River, by Cold Water Creek, and by the Missouri Hills campus of the Missouri Division of Youth Services (M-DYS). [1]
Fort Apache Historic Park; Fort Belle Fontaine; Fort Bowie; Fort Churchill State Historic Park; Fort Craig; Fort Crown Point; Fort Macomb; Fort McRae; Fort Montgomery (Hudson River) Fort St. Philip; Fort Sumner; Fort Wetherill; Fort Wingate
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Fort Belle Fontaine, open to the public; Fort Cap au Gris; Fort Crowder; Fort Leonard Wood, closed to the public; Fort Osage, open to the public;
Fort Belle Fontaine; Fort Benton (Patterson, Missouri) G. ... Old Fort (Miami, Missouri) Old Greenville (23WE637) Osage Village State Historic Site; Owl's Bend Site; P.
The area was chosen for its natural advantages, including a large clear water spring called "la belle fontaine" by the early French settlers. By the winter of 1805, Fort Bellefontaine was constructed under the command of Colonel Jacob Kingsbury, with log cabins, a trading house, a bakery, a blacksmith shop, and huts for enlisted soldiers.
Credit Island in present-day Scott County, Iowa Credit Island from an 1838 GLO map The Upper Mississippi River during the War of 1812. 1: Fort Belle Fontaine U.S. headquarters; 2: Fort Osage; 3: Fort Madison; 4: Fort Shelby; 5: Battle of Rock Island Rapids, July 1814 and the Battle of Credit Island, Sept. 1814; 6: Fort Johnson; 7: Fort Cap au Gris and the Battle of the Sink Hole, May 1815.