| Summary: | NORTH DAKOTA CENTENNIAL BLUE BOOK 547 CAMP CORNING STATE HISTORIC SITE - Barnes County, six miles east and two miles north of Dazey, a granite marker commemorates the July 16- 17 campsite of the 1863 Sibley expedition. CAMP GRANT STATE HISTORIC SITE — Stutsman County, one mile west, three miles north, and 13A miles west of Woodworth, a small tablet mounted on a large boulder commemorates the July 23rd campsite of the 1863 Sibley expedition. CAMP HANCOCK STATE HISTORIC SITE - Burleigh County, on west Main Street in downtown Bismarck, preserves part of a military installation established as Camp Greeley in 1872 to provide protection for work gangs then building the Northern Pacific Railroad. The camp's name was changed to Camp Hancock in 1873. After 1877 the military post served as a supply depot for Fort Abraham Lincoln and other posts further west. The post was decommissioned on April 16, 1894, was used as the Bismarck Weather Station until 1940, and then by the U. S. Soil Conservation Service until 1949. A log headquarters building still stands on the site; it has been enlarged and remodeled several times, and the logs have been concealed by clapboard siding. The building serves as an interpretive museum for artifacts and information about local history. It also contains a 1909 Northern Pacific Railway steam locomotive and the Bread of Life Episcopal Church. The church was moved onto the site in 1965 and has been restored to its 1885 appearance. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. CAMP KIMBALL STATE HISTORIC SITE - Foster County, four miles west, five miles south, and one mile east of Carrington, was the July 22- 23 campsite of the 1863 Sibley expedition. CAMP SHEARDOWN STATE HISTORIC SITE - Barnes County, two miles southeast of Valley City, a bronze marker identifies this site as the 1863 Sibley expedition's July 14- 15 camp. CAMP VVEISER STATE HISTORIC SITE - Barnes County, 3 ½ miles east, two miles south, and three quarters of a mile east of Kathryn, a small granite marker identifies this site as the approximate location of the July 13- 14 campsite of the 1863 Sibley expedition. The camp was named for Dr. Josiah Weiser, hter killed at the Battle of Big Mound. The site of Dr. Weiser's death is the Burman State Historic Site, and he was buried at Camp Whitney. CAMP WHITNEY STATE HISTORIC SITE - Kidder County, nine miles north ofTappen, this is the approximate location of a campsite used by the 1863 Sibley expedition following the Battle of Big Mound and may be the burial place of Dr. Josiah S. Weiser, whose death precipiated a July 24th battle. CHASKA STATE HISTORIC SITE - Burleigh County, three miles north of Driscoll, marks the approximate location of Camp Banks, an encampment used on August 2, 1863, by the Sibley expedition. Cbaska, an Indian scout, died at Camp Banks and was buried in the fortification ditch that surrounded the campsite. A bronze interpretive plate on a granite column has been placed as a memorial. FORT ABERCROMBIE STATE HISTORIC SITE - Richland County, at the eastern edge of Abercrombie, preserves the military post that served from 1857 until 1878 as the gateway to the Dakota frontier. Originally built without a stockade, a high log wall was erected during the Indian uprising of 1862, when the fort, filled with area settlers as well as its own garrison, was besieged by the Sioux for seven weeks. The first United States military fort established in North Dakota, it was a terminus of several major travel routes through the northern plains. A museum at the site interprets the history the fort and the area. Only one original building remains, but blockhouses and the palisade wall have been reconstructed. FORT ABRAHAM LINCOLN - See Fort Abraham Lincoln under " North Dakota State Parks." FORT BUFORD STATE HISTORIC SITE - Williams County, six miles west, 14 ½ miles southwest, and one mile south of Williston, preserves the remnants of a vital frontier plains military post. Upon the recommendation of General Alfred Sully, Fort Buford was built in 1866 near the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. After the abandonment of the American Fur Company's Fort Union in 1864, the area lost much of its importance as an Indian gathering place, and Fort Buford became a major supply depot for military field operations. Many prominent persons, military and civilian, visited this fort before its abandonment in 1895, including Generals Sherman, Sheridian and later J. J. " Black Jack" Pershing, then a young lieutenant enroute to Fort Assiniboine, Montana. Chief Joseph and his band of Nez Perce Indians were held here briefly in 1877 after their capture in the Bears
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