Pike Island
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Pike Island is an island at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers in the southwestern-most part of Saint Paul in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The island is managed as part of Fort Sne
Pike Island, 2018
Fort Snelling and Pike Island, 1850
Fort Snelling
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Fort Snelling is a former military fortification and National Historic Landmark in the U.S. state of Minnesota on the bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. The mil
Pike Island
…1805, the island was part of a 100,000-acre (400 km2) land purchased from the Mdewakanton Sioux by Zebulon Pike. Pike's Purchase was later to become Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, and Saint Paul. The U.S. government wanted to build a fort to protect American interests in the fur trade in the region, and Pike negotiated…
Fort Snelling's round tower
Camp New Hope in 1819
A painting representing Fort Snelling by Colonel Seth Eastman
An Inlaid Pipe Bowl with Two Faces collected at Fort Snelling 1833–36