Fort Bellingham Diagram

ID: 377 ~ Source: US Department of the Army. Sketch of Fort Bellingham, 1859, by Joseph Mansfield. US National Archives. Accessed November 10, 2020. https://historylink.org/File/7098.

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A diagram of the fort created by Army Inspector General Joseph Mansfield on his inspection of the post.

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Fort Bellingham – The Army’s Northernmost Outpost in the Pacific Northwest

By Neil Christenson

Fort Bellingham was established in 1856 by the US Army to be a northern outpost protecting the growing communities of Whatcom County. Constructed on a bluff overlooking Bellingham Bay and at the mouth of the Nooksack River, the fort was able to…