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Fort Reno

🇺🇸 United States · 19th century

Fort Reno in United States
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Fort Reno also known as Fort Connor or Old Fort Reno, was a wooden fort established on August 15, 1865, by the United States Army in Dakota Territory in present-day Johnson County, Wyoming. The fort was built to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail from Native American tribes.

Today, the parade ground and surrounding area has generally returned to a natural prairie sod cover. The site, approximately 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Sussex, Wyoming, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 28, 1970. There is a large stone monument and several interpretive signs marking the site that are accessible by a gravel road.

Text adapted from “Fort Reno (Wyoming)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort Reno ranks #2,597 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #65 of the 77 mapped in United States. Founded 1865, it is older than 8% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 336 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.

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