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Bookmark or Share- Fort Lyon - WikipediaFort Lyon was composed of two 19th-century military fort complexes in southeastern Colorado. The initial fort, also called Fort Wise, operated from 1860 to 1867. After a flood in 1866, a new fort was built near Las Animas, Colorado, which operated as a military post until 1897.
- Fort Lyon Program Referrals - Colorado Coalition for the HomelessFort Lyon Supportive Residential Community provides recovery oriented transitional housing to people experiencing homelessness on a sprawling campus in Bent County, Colorado. The program combines housing with peer support, and educational, vocational, and employment services.
- Bent's New Fort - WikipediaBent's New Fort was a historic fort and trading post along the banks of the Arkansas River in what is now Bent County, Colorado, about nine miles west of Lamar, [3] [4] on the Mountain Route branch of the Santa Fe Trail. [5]
- Fort Lyon, Colorado on the Arkansas River - Legends of AmericaFort Lyon, Colorado, in the 1800s. Fort Wise, established just west of Bent’s New Fort in Colorado, was built in 1860 and named for Henry Wise, governor of Virginia. That same year, the U.S. Army leased from William Bent his fortification, which consisted of 12 rooms surrounding a central courtyard.
- Fort Lyon | History ColoradoFort Lyon is important for its role as an army post, a navy hospital, and a veterans’ hospital. Beginning in 1867, the fort served as part of the army’s Department of the Missouri, a regional network of forts and military facilities in the Missouri River drainage.
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