Fort Washakie Historic District | |
 Fort Washakie Building #1 | |
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| Nearest city | Fort Washakie, Wyoming |
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| Coordinates | 43°00′23″N108°52′56″W / 43.00639°N 108.88222°W /43.00639; -108.88222 |
| Area | 23 acres (9.3 ha) |
| Built | 1869 (1869) |
| NRHP reference No. | 69000188[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 16, 1969 |
Fort Washakie was aU.S. Armyfort in what is now theU.S. state ofWyoming. The fort was established in 1869 and namedCamp Augur after GeneralChristopher C. Augur, commander of theDepartment of the Platte.[2] In 1870 the camp was renamedCamp Brown in honor of Captain Frederick H. Brown, who was killed in theFetterman Massacre in 1866.[3]
It was renamed again in 1878 in honor ofChief Washakie of theShoshone tribe, making the fort one of the only U.S. military outposts named after a Native American. (Another fort named for a Native American wasFort E.S. Parker, the original Crow Agency in Montana that operated from 1869 to 1875, which was named after the Seneca lawyer Eli Parker, who was a General under Ulysses Grant.)
Fort Washakie was operated as a military outpost until 1909, when it was decommissioned and turned over to the Shoshone Indian Agency. The graves of Washakie andLewis and Clark Expedition guideSacajawea are located on the grounds of the fort. The site is included within the present-dayWind River Indian Reservation.
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