Fort Belle Fontaine
St. Louis County, US
Fort Belle Fontaine, formerly known as Cantonment Belle Fontaine, is a former U.S. military base located in St. Louis County, Missouri, across the Mississippi and Missouri rivers from Alton, Illinois. The fort was the first U.S. military installation west of the Mississippi, in the newly acquired Lo
uisiana Territory, and served as a starting point for many expeditions to the American West.
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- Cold Water Cemetery cemetery · 6 km away
- Alton Military Prison Site monumenti · 7 km away
- Alton Gas & Electric Power House hydro_plant · 8 km away
- New Chain of Rocks Bridge bridge · 8 km away
- Chain of Rocks Bridge monumenti · 8 km away
- Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument monumenti · 8 km away
- Old Chain of Rocks Bridge monumenti · 8 km away
- McPike Mansion monumenti · 9 km away