Fort Larned Barracks
by Lynn Sprowl
Title
Fort Larned Barracks
Artist
Lynn Sprowl
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Photograph - Photography
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Fort Larned Barracks by Lynn Sprowl
On October 22, 1859 Camp Alert was established on the Pawnee River to provide protection and escort service along the Sane Fe. The following year it was moved further west. The new more durable sod and adobe fort was named for Colonel Benjamin F. Larned, who was the current Paymaster General for the United States Army. The sod walls were replaced over the next few years with locally quarried limestone.
Fort Larned was a key post in the Indian wars from 1859 to 1869, but it also served as an agency of the Indian Bureau in its attempts to provide peaceful solutions to the cultural conflict between the native americans and the whites.
In the 1870 the railroad pushed west through central Kansas and soldiers from Fort Larned provided protection for the construction workers. But as the railroad advanced, the Santa Fe Trail had less and less traffic and in July of 1878 the fort was abandoned except for a small guard force left to protect the property.
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