Local settlers built this improvised defensive position during an 1892 scare, and the nickname 'Fort Sauerkraut' outlived the crisis. The surviving memorial preserves a peculiar episode of frontier fear rather than a conventional military fort.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: ndtourism.com/hebron/historic-sites-forts/forts/fort-sauerkraut