National Historic Landmark · museum · Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin

Fort Crawford Military Hospital

United States historic place in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Added to the National Register in 1966, and a National Historic Landmark.

Open to visitNational Historic LandmarkListed 1966
Fort Crawford footingsFortCrawford1ca1840FortCrawford2ca1840FortCrawford2March1864
Photos via Wikimedia Commons · 6 in the Commons category

What it is

Wikipedia · Fort Crawford

Fort Crawford was an outpost of the United States Army located in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, during the 19th century.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeSite
AddressRice Street and South Beaumont Rd., Prairie du Chien, WI
CountyCrawford County
ListedOct 15, 1966
Reference number66000121
Type of placemuseum, fortification, fortification
DesignationsNational Historic Landmark
Contributing resources1 buildings, 1 sites

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

Visiting

Open to the public
AddressRice Street and South Beaumont Rd., Prairie du Chien, WI
Coordinates43.04360, -91.14708 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitEffigy Mounds National Monument · 4 mi · on Park Atlas
Federal campgrounds nearbyBlackhawk Park 29 mi · Grant River 35 mi
This one you can go inside. Hours and admission change with the season; the website above has the current schedule.

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Sources

Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 66000121. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.