Fort Independence (6)
Fort Independence (6) (1846-1847) - A Mexican War era fort established in 1846 by a detachment of U.S. Soldiers of the Mormon Battalion in present day Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado. Abandoned in 1847. HistoryA detachment of the Mormon Battalion arrived at Fort Pueblo in the fall of 1846 with their families and Mormon immigrants from Mississippi. They established a log settlement south of Fort Pueblo that served as a winter camp for the detachment and all of the accompanying civilians. The settlement became known as Fort Independence or the Mormon Colony Winter Camp. The Mormons erected a street of cabins built of cottonwood logs, laid one above the other and chocked with mud to make the structures weatherproof. A large log Mormon temple was built at one end. It was said that some 275 people wintered at the post during the winter of 1846-1847. The fort was abandoned in the spring of 1847 and on 27 Jun 1847, the Mormon immigrants reached their destination at Salt Lake City. Current StatusOnly a monument remains, erected in 1946 to a detachment of U.S. Soldiers of the Mormon Battalion who wintered here with their families and Mormon immigrants from Mississippi near the site of the monument.
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