Fort Washakie facts for kids
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Fort Washakie Historic District
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Fort Washakie Building #1
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 Location in Wyoming
Location in the United States
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| Nearest city | Fort Washakie, Wyoming |
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| Area | 23 acres (9.3 ha) |
| Built | 1869 |
| NRHP reference No. | 69000188 |
| Added to NRHP | April 16, 1969 |
Fort Washakie was a U.S. Army fort in what is now the U.S. state of Wyoming. The fort was established in 1869 and named Camp Augur after General Christopher C. Augur, commander of the Department of the Platte. In 1870 the camp was renamed Camp Brown in honor of Captain Frederick H. Brown, who was killed in the Fetterman Massacre in 1866.
It was renamed again in 1878 in honor of Chief Washakie of the Shoshone tribe, making the fort one of the only U.S military outposts named after a Native American. (Another fort named for a Native American was Fort E.S. Parker, the original Crow Agency in Montana that operated from 1869–1875, which was named after the Seneca lawyer Eli Parker, who was a General under Ulysses Grant.)
Fort Washakie was operated as a military outpost until 1909, when it was decommissioned and turned over to the Shoshone Indian Agency. The graves of Washakie and Lewis and Clark Expedition guide Sacajawea are located on the grounds of the fort. The site is included within the present-day Wind River Indian Reservation.
