Half-Moon Battery

The battery sat 100 feet above the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, offering a spectacular view of the rivers’ valleys and traffic. It may have been the platform for a 24-pounder howitzer listed on an early inventory. To make way for the battery in 1820, builders removed a tree (during Snelling’s absence and against his orders), revealing a bottle containing a copy of Zebulon Pike’s 1805 treaty purchasing the military reservation. By the late 1830s, a suspended walkway connected the battery with the nearby Commanding Officer’s Quarters. Shortly after the Civil War, a conical roof was added to the structure and its use was listed as a bandstand. Like many other of the fort’s buildings, the Half-Moon Battery was demolished around 1879.
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Categories: tower, historical building
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Snelling
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Coordinates:  44°53'33"N 93°10'45"W
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