Janeaux's Post

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Other Names:  Fort Turnay

Dates used: 1879 - 1882

Location of Fort: Lewistown, MT

Use: Trading

GPS  N: 47-03.978

         W: 109-25.564

A trading post established in 1879 by Francis A Janeaux near Big Spring Creek.  The post was a stockade fort about 100 feet by 150 feet with two bastions at diagonal corners. 

For more information see:

Encyclopedia of Historic Forts

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