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Fort Ridgely State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the Minnesota River south of Fairfax. It preserves Fort Ridgely, site of the Battle of Fort Ridgely during the Dakota War of 1862. It was the only Minnesota state park with a 9-hole golf course, which overlooks the Minnesota River and goes along Fort Ridgely Creek.
The Minnesota Historical Society maintains the publicly owned portion within Fort Ridgely State Park. [25] The old commissary building (partially reconstructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s) now houses the Park's museum. Fort Ridgely was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, with much of the park added in ...
1853 U.S. Army fort built to monitor the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation. Site of the Battle of Fort Ridgely during the Dakota War of 1862. Now a state park and historic site. [7] 7: Fort Ridgely State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic Resources: Fort Ridgely State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic Resources
There are 64 state parks, nine state recreation areas, nine state waysides, and 23 state trails in the Minnesota state park system, totaling approximately 267,000 acres (1,080 km 2). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A Minnesota state park is an area of land in the U.S. state of Minnesota preserved by the state for its natural, historic, or other resources.
From Fort Garry, southbound cart trains followed the eastern edge of the Red River's Great Plains, [39] crossing the Roseau River and the international border. In Minnesota, the trail was joined by a route coming from Pembina to the northwest, and continued south on a level prairie in the former lakebed of prehistoric Lake Agassiz.
State Highway 4 serves as a north–south route between Sherburn, Saint James, Sleepy Eye, Fairfax, Hector, Paynesville, and Meire Grove in southwest and west-central Minnesota. Highway 4 parallels U.S. Highway 71 and State Highway 15 throughout its route. Fort Ridgely State Park is located on Highway 4 in Nicollet County on the Minnesota River.
Fort Ridgely Creek is a stream in Nicollet County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1] It is a tributary of the Minnesota River . Fort Ridgely Creek flows past Fort Ridgely , from which the creek took its name.
It was named for Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (1786-1843), [4] a French explorer whose maps of the area had been instrumental in the territory's development. The county seat was established at Saint Peter. [5] Significant fighting occurred in the county during the 1862 Dakota War, most notably at the Battle of Fort Ridgely.