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3 unusual facts about Fort Henry


Fort Henry

Fort Henry on the Missouri River, an 1822 fort southwest of present-day Williston, North Dakota

Fort Henry, Ontario (1837) in Kingston, Ontario, a limestone redoubt and connected fortified battery, built to protect the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard and the entrance to the Rideau Canal — now a popular tourist destination

Fort Henry, Ontario

Fort Henry was featured on the Popular Syfy network program Ghost Hunters, where members of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (also known as "TAPS") investigated for evidence of Fort Henry's notable paranormal activity.


Elliott Warren Rice

He participated in the campaigns to capture Fort Henry and Fort Donelson and in the Battle of Shiloh, when he was promoted to colonel.

Mike Fink

Mike Fink signed up as one of Ashley's Hundred and formed a part of the band that built Fort Henry.


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Thunder Butte

Literary references to Thunder Butte appear in the story of Hugh Glass, a mountain man/trapper with the 1823 party of William Henry Ashley and Andrew Henry, which was traveling overland from Fort Kiowa to Fort Henry at the mouth of the Yellowstone River.