Fort Larned National Historic Site

Fort Larned National Historic Site
Location	Pawnee County, Kansas,Kansas route 156, USA
Nearest city	Larned, Kansas
Area	718 acres (2.91 km²)
Established	August 31, 1964
Visitors	31,551 (in 2005)
Governing body	National Park Service

Fort Larned National Historic Site, located just west of Larned, Kansas, United States, commemorates Fort Larned, which was established in 1859 as a base of military operations against hostile Indians of the Central Plains, to protect traffic along the Santa Fe Trail and as an agency for the administration of the Central Plains Indians by the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the terms of the Fort Wise Treaty of 1861. With nine restored buildings, it survives as one of the best examples of Indian Wars period forts. Most of the buildings, including the barracks, commissary, and officers quarters, are furnished to their original appearance.
The buildings are built of a yellowish cut stone. The barracks follow the pattern familiar to Army trainees, with a large open bay with beds on each side of a central aisle. There was a room with a door at one end, a sergeant's room. What is unusual to living recruits is that there was no shower or toilet room at the end opposite the sergeant. In 1997 there was no fence or wooden stockade around the site.

External links

• National Park Service: Fort Larned National Historic Site
• Extensive photos of Fort Larned

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