November 2010

It was also the only post in the area to be besieged by Dakota (Sioux) warriors for more than six weeks during the Dakota conflict of 1862. During the Dakota Conflict, Minnesota Volunteer soldiers manned the fort when area settlers sought shelter there. The "regular" U.S. Army soldiers had been withdrawn during the Civil War and had been replaced by the Minnesota Voluteer Infantry. The fort was not protected by blockhouses or a palisade during the seige, but these defensive structures were constructed soon afterward.

The fort guarded the oxcart trails of the later fur trade era, military supply wagon trains, stagecoach routes, and steamboat traffic on the Red River. It also was a supply base for two major gold-seeking expeditions across Dakota into Montana. Fort Abercrombie served as a hub for several major transportation routes through the northern plains.

The Museum preserves the heritage of the mechanical arts, celebrates the ingenuity of our mechanical forebears, and explores the effects of their work on our everyday lives. The American Precision Museum, housed in the original Robbins & Lawrence Armory, now holds the largest collection of historically significant machine tools in the nation.

Hill Aerospace Museum is located on approximately 30 acres on the northwest corner of Hill Air Force Base, Utah, about five miles south of Ogden. The museum was founded in 1982 as a part of the United States Air Force Heritage Program and first opened to the public in 1987. It moved to its current facility in 1991 and hosted its 1 millionth visitor in the spring of 1996. About 180,000 visitors from every state and from many foreign countries come to the museum annually.

Currently the Museum exhibits over 80 military aircraft, missiles, and aerospace vehicles on the grounds and inside the Major General Rex A. Hadley Gallery and the Lindquist Stewart Fighter Gallery. The museum collection also includes a wide variety of ordnance, an assortment of aerospace ground equipment, military vehicles, uniforms, and thousands of other historical artifacts.

Here in the autumn of 1777 American forces met, defeated and forced a major British army to surrender—a crucial American victory that renewed patriots' hopes for independence.

Begin your visit at the Visitor Center, where you can pick up a park map & brochure and pay your entrance fee. The Visitor Center also has restrooms, a book and gift shop, 20-minute orientation film, fiber-optic light map, timeline display, and artifact display. Tours of the Battlefield are self-guiding, using information in the park brochure and interpretive stations along the way. The restored country house of American General Philip Schuyler, second of three sites making up Saratoga National Historical Park, is located approximately 7 miles north of the Battlefield.

At various times he was a wholesale liquor dealer, register of the Bismarck Land Office, and president of the First National Bank. He sold this house to the state for $5,000 in 1893.

The site consists of a large two and one-half story, restored Victorian house and a carriage house. It housed 21 chief executives between 1893 and 1960. Unique room exhibits feature the restoration process, architectural style changes, and furniture used by several governors.

In 1975 the State Historical Society of North Dakota was given the house with the hope that it would operate as a historic house museum. Extensive research and restoration has been completed, restoring the house to its former appearance as it might have been in 1893. Throughout the house are restoration features which are highlighted to show visitors what work has been done. These features include samples of wallpaper that have been exposed to indicate changes in style and taste.

A visit through the Seaford Museum begins with the Nanticoke Indians who used poisoned arrows and concludes with a large nylon, spinning machine that made the world’s first synthetic fibers. Exhibits on early agriculture, shipbuilding, canning, the chicken industry and railroads are also on display. The Seaford Museum includes a changing exhibit gallery, a presentation room, a general information area and a museum store.

In 2000, the Vermont Historical Society acquired the old Spaulding School in Barre, which was been renovated to house the library, collections and administrative offices. In July 2002 the Society's library opened to the public on the second floor of the Vermont History Center.  In November 2007 the library was named the Howard and Alba Leahy Library.

Métis, meaning "mixed blood" or "mixed race," is a term used by people of combined Indian and European ancestry to describe themselves. Gingras was a prominent fur trader, who in 1861 claimed a net worth of $60,000 and later increased his holdings to include a chain of trading posts extending across northern Dakota Territory and southern Manitoba. Gingras's hand-hewn oak log store and home are among the few tangible remains of the fur trade in the Red River Valley.

This home belonged to William Henry Harrison Ross, who was the Governor of Delaware from 1851 to 1855. And although he was instrumental in bringing a railroad connecting to Philadelphia to southern Delaware, when the Civil War began, he was forced to flee to England when Delaware remained with the Union, as Ross was a Confederate sympathizer. He left behind this home which serves as a reminder of the antebellum period.

The home itself is a restored, 3-story Italian-style Victorian home. The site also has the only still-standing slave quarters in the state of Delaware.

According to Mandan oral history, Double Ditch was one of seven to nine villages simultaneously occupied near the mouth of the Heart River. The Mandan population in this area probably totaled 10,000 or more during this time. The earthlodge villages were centers of trade between the Mandans, their nomadic neighbors, and later, Euroamerican traders. A massive smallpox epidemic swept the interior of North America about 1781-1782. This catastrophe was apparently responsible for the abandonment of Double Ditch and all the other Mandan villages near the Heart River. The Mandans had moved to new villages farther upriver. People of Mandan Indian ancestry live today throughout much of the Northern Great Plains. As one of the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan tribal headquarters are at Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota. The site is open year round as there are no facilities at Double Ditch.