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Eight rods west of the southwest corner of the fort stood a fort erected for protection from Indians during the Walker War. Its walls enclosed three separate squares. In 1853, an eight-foot mud wall built around a thirty-three-rod square was named Fort Wordsworth. In 1854, a twelve-foot wall surrounding the homes of twenty-five families was called Fort Mountainville. The main fort, erected in 1855, enclosed a ten-acre square with walls fourteen feet high. A fort ditch flowed inside the walls, and the north and south gates spanned the present Main Street of Alpine.
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Alpine, Utah · United States
