Address Restricted, Lamar, Colorado. County/parish: Bent.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 26, 2016. NRIS 16000666.
Part of Santa Fe Trail MPS (NRIS 64500224).
1 contributing site. 1 contributing object.Also known as:
Bent's New Fort was a historic fort and trading post along the banks of the Arkansas River in what is now Bent County, Colorado, about nine miles west of Lamar, on the Mountain Route branch of the Santa Fe Trail. William Bent operated a trading post with limited success at the site and in 1860 leased the fort to the United States government, which operated it as a military outpost until 1867. In 1862, it was named Fort Lyon. The fort was abandoned after a flood of the Arkansas River in 1867.
The ruins of the fort and a portion of the Santa Fe Trail were listed as Santa Fe Trail Mountain Route-Bent's New Fort on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
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