United States · 19th century
Fort Laramie ranks #3,015 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #61 of the 110 mapped in United States. Founded 1849, it is older than 8% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,718 times in the last 60 days, more than 76% of the atlas. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
Fort Laramie is a former trading post and later army fort at the confluence of the Laramie River and the North Platte River in the south-east of the US state of Wyoming, near the town of Fort Laramie. The name goes back to a French trapper named Jacques La Ramee.
Machine-translated from “Fort Laramie” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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