I must confess that I didn’t ride my bicycle to take this photo of the marker for Fort Beane in Goshen, Indiana. I’m not exactly sure why. I’ve ridden in, around, and through Goshen many times. But this marker isn’t on any of my usual routes. It’s on Hwy 33 and Reynolds Street. As far as I have learned, the exact site of the fort is not known.
Highway 33 is the successor to one of the earliest roads through the region. It’s a busy one, now.
This fort is on the lists of North American Fortifications compiled by Phil and Pete Payette at www.northamericanforts.com. That list is missing a couple of Indiana forts from the Black Hawk war that I know about, but it has also filled me in on some that I’ve missed. I used it once when planning some riding in Illinois. There are a LOT of Black Hawk fort sites in that state, which is not surprising given that’s where some of the fighting took place. I don’t pretend to be familiar with all of them.
Another place for information about Black Hawk fort locations is the Black Hawk War Message Board at http://blackhawkwar.proboards9.com. The people there deal mostly with Illinois and Wisconsin locations.
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