Earthlodge depressions, cemetery areas and fort traces preserve a place where a Mandan village and a major American Fur Company post once stood side by side. A devastating smallpox epidemic in 1837 is central to the site's history.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: ndtourism.com/stanton/attractions-entertainment/landmark-attractions/fort-clark-state-historic-site