Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site

Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site

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name =Fort Clark Archeological District
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caption = A typical Mandan village — possibly what the early settlement may have looked like
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Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site was once the home to a Mandan and later an Arikara settlement. Over the course of its history it also had two trading posts. Today only archeological remains survive at the site located eight miles west of Washburn, North Dakota.

History

In 1822, the Mandan tribe built a settlement with earth-covered lodges on the bluffs of the Missouri River. In 1830, a representative of the American Fur Company built Fort Clark Trading Postsouth of the village. The first steamboat to journey up the upper-Missouri River was the "Yellow Stone" which arrived in 1832 carrying 1,500 gallons of goods and liquor. George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, and the German Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied all visited the site and stayed the winter of 1832-1833. In 1832, the steamboat "St. Peters" docked at the village carrying passengers infected with smallpox. As the disease swept through the village, it wiped out approximately ninety-percent of the inhabitants. In 1838, the nearby Arikara tribe moved into the abandoned village. In 1850, another trading post was built by Charles Primeau. In 1851, a cholera outbreak occurred and then a smallpox outbreak in 1856. When an attack by the Dakota happened in 1861, the fort was permanently abandoned.

Today

Fort Clark is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. More than 2,200 features on the surface from the ruins of houses and graves still exist. Lodge depressions are also visible along with an unmarked cemetery with more than 800 graves. The site is operated by the North Dakota State Historical Society.

ee also

*Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

External links

* [http://www.nd.gov/HIST/ftClark/index.html| Fort Clark Trading Post website]


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