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The People and Stories of Fort Snelling
Scroll down to learn more about the Native Peoples, The Fur Trade, Soldiers and Veterans, Enslaved People and Immigrant stories. Bonus: Educators, Students, and Historians discuss what Fort Snelling has meant to them in the Minnesota Historical Society's Video Series: What Fort Snelling Means to Me




- Sep 28, 2020
- 4 min
Abigail Hunt Snelling was more than a helpmate at the early years of the fort bearing her name


- May 7, 2020
- 1 min
The Minnesota Daughters of the American Revolution is exciting to be a part of the bi-centennial


- Sep 10, 2019
- 4 min
Book Release: Fort Snelling and the Civil War


- Aug 30, 2019
- 5 min
Slavery made its mark here in Minnesota, too


- Aug 27, 2019
- 4 min
The oldest murder mystery in Minnesota begins at Fort Snelling


- Jul 8, 2019
- 1 min
Pearl Harbor Sailor, Recently Identified, To Be Interred at Fort Snelling


- Jun 17, 2019
- 2 min
Fort Snelling exhibit traces the history of secret language school


- Jun 13, 2019
- 4 min
Long a Window into Minnesota’s Frontier Days… Fort Snelling has more Stories to Tell


- Jun 12, 2019
- 1 min
See Fort Snelling in Virtual Reality thanks to U of M Lab and the Historical Society


- May 23, 2019
- 4 min
Why Save Coldwater Spring

- May 21, 2019
- 2 min
Fort Snelling to Honor the “Vikings”, a Minnesota-based WWII Ski Battalion


- May 21, 2019
- 3 min
Dakota aim to reclaim Fort Snelling and its difficult history


- May 21, 2019
- 2 min
Minnesota Historical Society expands its work with veterans at historic Fort Snelling


- May 21, 2019
- 3 min
Counterpoint: Fort Snelling History Offers Name Insight

- May 10, 2019
- 1 min
Coming Home From War: Fort Snelling in 1865


- May 10, 2019
- 3 min
Fort Snelling: An Important Point of Minnesota History


- May 10, 2019
- 4 min
The Ojibwe People


- May 10, 2019
- 6 min
Enslaved African Americans and the Fight for Freedom


- May 10, 2019
- 3 min
The Story of the US Indian Agency

- May 10, 2019
- 1 min
C-SPAN Video Tour – Saint Paul: Historic Fort Snelling


- May 10, 2019
- 5 min
Dred Scott is Fort Snelling’s best-known slave, but there were others


- May 10, 2019
- 3 min
It’s time for truth-telling at Fort Snelling


- Apr 30, 2019
- 5 min
The Dakota People


- Apr 25, 2019
- 3 min
200 years later, Fort Snelling looks for a makeover


- Apr 12, 2019
- 2 min
Josiah Snelling Arrives in 1820