Fort Ransom State Historic Site

Fort Ransom, built in 1867 by Gen. Alfred Terry to protect overland travel from Minnesota to Montana, was named in honor of brevet Major General Thomas E. G. Ransom of the US Volunteers. Today, although the building locations and the dry moat are still clearly discernible, nothing else remains of the original fort or its twelve-foot high sod and log stockade.

Today a marker describing the military fort sits beside a parking area on the east side of a county road. Building remnants and cellars, a fortification ditch with an embankment, and a flagpole mark the remains of this once thriving post.

The site is open year-round, however there is no snow removal.