Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, North Dakota

Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, North Dakota, overlooks the Missouri River. Established in 1878, it was a key military post during westward expansion.
Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, North Dakota, overlooks the Missouri River. Established in 1878, it was a key military post during westward expansion.

Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park sits along the Missouri River just south of Mandan, North Dakota, on bluffs overlooking the river's confluence with the Heart River. The park occupies the site of a military post established in 1872, built to protect railroad survey crews and later home to Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and the 7th Cavalry before their departure for the Little Bighorn campaign in 1876. The grounds also preserve the remains of On-A-Slant Village, a Mandan earthlodge settlement occupied from roughly 1575 to 1781. North Dakota's state park system has maintained the site since the 1930s, when the Civilian Conservation Corps reconstructed several of the fort's original buildings.

Photo taken in July 2015.

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