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SE edge of the town of Fort Totten, 13 miles SE of Devils Lake, ND.
8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (CDT) from May 16 - September 15. September 16 - May 15, weekdays by appointment.
Seventeen Original Buildings
Exhibits & Video
Pioneer Daughters' Museum
Modern Facilities
Interpretive Center
Limited ADA Accessiblity
Totten Trail Historic Inn
Rental Meeting Space Available.
$5.00 per adult and $1.50 per child.
School groups: $1 per /student, adults with students get free admission.
Tour buses: $2 per person for groups of 20 or more.
North Dakota Heritage Foundation members and children five and under are admitted free.
For information on other attractions in the area, follow this link to Devils Lake CVB at 1-800-233-8048.
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The Promise of Water: The Garrison Diversion Project
Through September 15
A controversial political issue in North Dakota, the idea of diverting Missouri River water for use in North Dakota has passed through many different versions. Wayne Gudmundson’s photographs of the Garrison Diversion follow the path of the project from one end to the other, illuminating significant aspects of the project like never before.
Encountering Fort Totten
Permanent Exhibit
Immerse yourself in history! Choose between following a soldier, a young female Chippewa student, a teacher, or a teenage male Dakota student as you tour the fort grounds. These four self-guided itineraries will allow you to follow a single individual throughout the fort, experiencing life at Fort Totten as that person might have lived it. All four characters are based on oral histories collected from Spirit Lake tribal members and other 19th and 20th Century accounts. Major new exhibits that opened May 16 in the commissary storehouse building will introduce you to the fort during its time as a military post (1867-90) and boarding school for American Indians (1891-1959). Also included in the new exhibits is a section on the preservation of the fort during the last 50 years by the State Historical Society North Dakota. Fort Totten has long been considered one of the best-preserved frontier military posts west of the Mississippi River.
The following slideshow features a preview of what visitors can experience at the Encountering Fort Totten exhibit.
Address:
SE edge of Fort Totten (town)
13 mi. SE of Devils Lake, ND.
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Hours:
May 16 - September 15: 8 am - 5 pm (CDT)
September 16 - May 15: weekdays by appointment.
Contact Us:
phone: (701) 328-2666
fax: (701) 328-3710
email: histsoc@nd.gov
