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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (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. | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (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. | ||
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== History == | == History == | ||
A 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 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, located south of Fort Pueblo. | A 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 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, located south of Fort Pueblo. | ||
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* [https://www.northamericanforts.com/West/co.html#pueblo North American Forts - Fort Independence (6)] | * [https://www.northamericanforts.com/West/co.html#pueblo North American Forts - Fort Independence (6)] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Independence (6)_Wikipedia - Fort Independence (6)] | |||
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Revision as of 08:00, 28 July 2019
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 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, located south of Fort Pueblo. The Mormons erected a street of shanties built of cottonwood logs, laid one above the other and chocked with mud to make the structures weatherproof. A large log temple was built at one end. 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 with their families near the site of the monument.
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