Welcome.

We are The Northern Plains Heritage Alliance, an amalgamation of like-minded, closely held organizations who are resolute in their support of the heritage education driven mission of The Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation.

In 1982, community members on the Northern Plains formed the Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation (FALF), a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to heritage education and heritage tourism. This establishment of FALF realized a multi-generational goal that started just after the official decommissioning of Fort Abraham Lincoln as a military post in 1891. Sixteen years later, in 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt deeded Fort Abraham Lincoln to the Great State of North Dakota. Residents of the Northern Plains continued to take an active interest in Fort Abraham Lincoln, understanding its regional history and memory had national importance.

In subsequent decades and generations, Fort Abraham Lincoln continued to draw interest. In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps, in tandem with the National Park Service, invested in building infrastructure at this site. It included circular earth lodges at On-A-Slant Village, block houses at historic Fort McKeen up on the bluff, and a museum and outbuilding using Northern Plains stone smithed granite. Construction of physical buildings stopped there, but the CCC also established approximate locations of the military installations, using soft stone corner markers.

In the 1950s, North Dakota Governor John E. Davis reinvigorated interest in Fort Abraham Lincoln by establishing the Custer Fort Lincoln Foundation, a non-profit corporation dedicated to the restoration of Fort Abraham Lincoln. Interest continued, but it was not until 1982 that FALF and numerous communities on the Northern Plains made the big push to rebuild the Commanding Officer’s Quarters, aka, The Custer House, at Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park.

From 1982 to 2012, FALF cultivated every relationship they could to leverage every partnership resource possible. It resulted in millions of dollars of built infrastructure enjoyed to this day at Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park. From 2012 and beyond, FALF has worked with infinite public and private partners to bring heritage education and heritage tourism beyond the state park boundaries to the larger footprint of the Northern Plains.

To better explain this mission and organization, we are the Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation and the Northern Plains Heritage Alliance.