United States · 19th century
Fort Vasquez is a former fur trading post 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Denver, Colorado, United States, founded by Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette in 1835. Restored by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, it now lies in a rather incongruous position as U.S. Route 85 splits to run either side of the building. History Colorado (then the Colorado Historical Society) took possession of the property in 1958 and runs it as a museum to display exhibits of the fur-trade era.
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Fort Vasquez ranks #7,906 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #108 of the 110 mapped in United States. Founded 1835, it is older than 9% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
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