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Fort Ouiatenon Blockhouse Museum, West Lafayette, IN

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Fort Ouiatenon Blockhouse Museum

A 1930 replica fort blockhouse on the site of an early French trading post, open on select weekends.

3129 South River Road, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906 · West Lafayette, IN

About Fort Ouiatenon Blockhouse Museum

The blockhouse sits on land near the believed location of an eighteenth-century French trading post. A local physician bought the grounds in 1928 and built a small replica fort there in 1930. The grounds are now a county historic park about three miles southwest of West Lafayette. The museum is run by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association and is open on select weekends, and it also offers school programs.

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