Stone and earthwork remains survive from a U.S. Army post built in the 1840s to monitor the Ho-Chunk during their forced relocation period. The preserved barracks and walls create one of Iowa's most substantial frontier military ruins.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: iowadnr.gov/places-go/state-parks/all-parks/fort-atkinson-state-preserve