Fort Andrew

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Dates used: 1862 - 1863

Location of Fort: Valentine, MT

Use: Trading

GPS  N: 47-35.

         W: 108-07.

A 125 square foot log palisaded trading post established by the American Fur Company on the left bank of the Missouri River about 15 miles upstream from the mouth of the Musselshell River on November 1862.  I believe the site has been flooded by the Fort Peck Reservoir. 

For more information see:

American Forts Network (internet)

Encyclopedia of Historic Forts

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