Fort Keogh

Fort Keogh is a former United States Army post located at the western edge of modern Miles City, in the U.S. state of Montana. It is situated on the south bank of the Yellowstone River, at the mouth of the Tongue River.

Colonel Nelson A. Miles, commanding the 5th Infantry Regiment, founded the post in August 1876, in the wake of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, as a base for patrols to prevent the Cheyenne and Sioux involved in the battle from escaping to Canada. The fort was originally known as the Tongue River Cantonment for two years. When relocated one mile west in 1878, it was renamed Fort Keogh in honor of Captain Myles Keogh, who was killed at the Little Bighorn. In 1877, the fort became the headquarters for the newly created District of the Yellowstone (a sub-unit of the Department of Dakota), which was commanded by Miles.

The development of Fort Keogh as a military installation soon stimulated traders to supply the liquor and other service businesses that were the beginning of Miles City. Today the former military post is a United States Department of Agriculture livestock and range research station. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Fort Keogh steht weltweit auf Platz 2.582 von 5.793 im Burgen-Bekanntheitsranking des Atlas und Nr. 73 der 98 in Vereinigte Staaten verzeichneten. Gegründet 1876, ist es älter als 7% der datierten Objekte des Atlas — eines von 407 Atlas-Objekten, die im 19. Jahrhundert gegründet wurden. Sehen Sie im Burgen-Statistik, wie Vereinigte Staaten abschneidet.

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