Bicentennial Story #56-Fort Sauerkraut, Hebron

Bicentennial Story #56-Fort Sauerkraut, Hebron

Description of Fort Sauerkraut in Hebron.

7/17/1975

5/25/1976

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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BS-056

Hebron, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

Colossal work went into the building of Fort Sauerkraut at Hebron during the Indian Scare of 1890. For the women and children and food supplies the Hebronites built a sod house 100 feet long. They surrounded this with a thick sod parapet 7 feet high and well provided with port holes for the riflemen. Tunnels led to rifle pits outside the walls, and farther out they drove in numerous posts to which they strung an intricate web of wires to trip the attacking Indians and their horses. Inside, the fort was stocked with food supplies, including kegs of Sauerkraut—hence the quaint name for Hebron's historic fort.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 56, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller, for the Stark County Historical Society.

N.D.H., Vol. 39, p. 10

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Bicentennial tape #2, Bicentennial stories 46-66