Zumwalt’s Fort

Last month, I posted a video of an edit I did of an old cabin. Below are some more images of that cabin, which is located in Fort Zumwalt Park in O’Fallon, Missouri. Read further down for the complete history of the building.

“It’s hard to imagine the O’Fallon area as the leading edge of the American frontier. But in 1799, when Daniel Boone and his family settled just a few miles away, the area was a wilderness in which Native Americans hunted, fished and trapped game.

At about the same time that Daniel Boone arrived, Jacob Zumwalt and his extended family settled in the O’Fallon area circa 1798, building a large log home. A few years later, when the War of 1812 set off deadly guerilla raids with Native Americans ambushing and killing American settlers, local families fled to the shelter provided by the Zumwalt’s home, which is said to have been fortified with a stockade fence.  A spring, which is now Lake Whetsel, supplied water.

Zumwalt’s Fort, as the fortified house came to be called, was one of 35-plus “settler forts” that once stood in Missouri. Boone’s Fort at present-day Matson, Missouri, was the largest.

The reconstructed Zumwalt’s Fort opened in 2015 as a gift to the City from the O’Fallon Community Foundation. It is the only rebuilt War of 1812 settler fort in the state.” https://www.ofallon.mo.us/zumwalts-fort

The last seven tree posts that I’ve posted are from within this Fort Zumwalt Park and they include glimpses of Lake Whetsel. I have about 4 more images still to come in this series.

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