Do you know of Fort Snelling ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Snelling. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Fort Snelling.<1> Our sources for Fort Snelling (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Fort Snelling other than they indicate that Fort Snelling would be found somewhere in Hennepin County, Minnesota. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1827 and closed in 1918. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Snelling ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fort Snelling: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fort Snelling - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
More Orphans in Hennepin County ...Can you help? As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Hennepin County. Footnotes ...
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