Editing Fort Ripley, Minnesota (section)

==History==
[[Fort Ripley (Minnesota fort)|Fort Ripley]] was a United States military installation beginning in 1849 and lasting until 1877.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mnmilitarymuseum.org/index.php/about-us/about-camp-ripley/ |title=Minnesota Military Historical Society entry on Fort Ripley |access-date=2013-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125064607/http://www.mnmilitarymuseum.org/index.php/about-us/about-camp-ripley/ |archive-date=2013-01-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The fort, now a small part of [[Camp Ripley]], was on the opposite side of the Mississippi River from [[Morrison County, Minnesota|Morrison County]] as the current city in [[Crow Wing County, Minnesota|Crow Wing County]].

The city of Fort Ripley was incorporated in 1927.<ref>[http://www.lakesnwoods.com/FortRipley.htm Guide of Fort Ripley, Minnesota]</ref> It took its name from the fort, which was named for [[Eleazer Wheelock Ripley]], an American soldier and politician.<ref>{{cite book|author=Warren Upham|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n176 157]}}</ref>