Old Fort Benton

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Fort Benton, MT 59442
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https://fortbentonmuseums.com

Old Fort Park in Fort Benton, Montana offers a unique historical experience at Historic Old Fort Benton, where visitors can immerse themselves in the fur and buffalo robe trade of the 1850s. Explore rooms filled with period furnishings, a trade store with buffalo robes and trade goods, a warehouse with fur trade era collections, and a blacksmith carpenter's shop.

Newly reconstructed for 2012, the Bourgeois House at Old Fort Benton features the Starr Gallery showcasing Karl Bodmer's aquatint collection and Robert Scriver's No More Buffalo Collection. With knowledgeable staff to guide your journey, discover the significance of this fort as the most important robe trading post on the Upper Missouri River.

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