Fort Phil Kearny and Associated Sites

On SR W off U.S. 87, Story, Wyoming. County/parish: Johnson.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000756.

3 contributing sites.

From Wikipedia:

Fort Phil Kearny

Fort Phil Kearny was an outpost of the United States Army that existed in the late 1860s in present-day northeastern Wyoming along the Bozeman Trail. Construction began in 1866 on Friday, July 13, by Companies A, C, E, and H of the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, under the direction of the regimental commander and Mountain District commander Colonel Henry B. Carrington.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73730064

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