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Fort Howard (Wisconsin)

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Following the fort's closure its buildings fell into decay. Several structures were subsequently removed to the Camp Smith site, where they are now part of the
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In 1863, the United States government granted land to the States of Michigan and Wisconsin for construction of a military road between Fort Howard and
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on higher ground nearby. Fort Howard was reoccupied two years later. Abandoned again in 1841, when the garrison was sent to
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Fort Howard on the 1835 Tourist's Pocket Map of Michigan among the "
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near Copper Harbor, Michigan. This road was completed in 1872.
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invasion. The fort was built at the site of the earlier French
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History buffs launch search for Fort Howard's footprint
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Buildings and structures in Brown County, Wisconsin
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Fox River
Fort Howard on the 1835 Tourist's Pocket Map of Michigan among the "Mennomonie" villages of Wisconsin Territory

Mennomonie
Wisconsin Territory
44°31′N 88°1′W / 44.517°N 88.017°W / 44.517; -88.017 (Fort Howard (closed 1853, location approximate))
fortification
north central
United States
U.S. Army
Fox River
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Fort Crawford
Prairie du Chien
War of 1812
Fox-Wisconsin Waterway
Lake Michigan
Mississippi River
British
Fort La Baye
(Military History of the Upper Great Lakes)
Zachary Taylor
malaria
Camp Smith
Florida
Seminole Wars
Fort Wilikins
Heritage Hill State Historical Park
National Register of Historic Places

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