Dance set at Fort Assinniboine

Havre Daily News staff

An Oktoberfest celebration is set Saturday, Oct. 7, in the Hop Room at Fort Assinniboine to raise funds to restore the historic building.

Lynda Taplin of the Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association said the old-fashioned event will raise money to restore the Hop Room, located on the fort about six miles southwest of Havre on U.S. Highway 87.

The association has worked for decades to restore the fort, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

The fort, one of the largest west of the Mississippi River, was commissioned at the tail end of the In...