Fort Ridgely State Park: Fairfax, MN | Prairie Mosaic Shorts
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Learn about Fort Ridgely State Park, a US military fort used in the Dakota Wars turned into a memorial site in southern Minnesota. During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps began doing restoration work on the fort, which had been designated a state park in 1911.