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Ground Penetrating Radar and Ground Truthing Jefferson Davis’s Map of Fort Winnebago (2025)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1828 Fort Winnebago was built as the third U.S. Army fort in Wisconsin. The three forts were built to guard the Fox and Wisconsin River waterways which connect the Atlantic’s Saint Lawrence Seaway to New Orleans. Fort Winnebago overlooked the single portage on that route. The fort other purpose was to protect American traders after the Winnebago War of 1827. Jefferson Davis, future...