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Fort Reno & Calumet Junction, OK
Fort Reno was established in 1874 to provide security in the Cheyenne
and Arapaho lands. During WWII German and Italian POWs were housed here.
Histotric
Marker
Route 66
This marker is located west of El Reno on the north side of Route
66, just west of the "Okla City/Amarillo I-40 Jct sign ...
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Visitor
Center
The visitor center is the first building you come to when you enter
the fort property. But once you turn into the fort it is about 1.5
miles north to the visitor center. ... read
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USCA
Cavalry Museum
The U.S. Cavalry Association Museum in this renovated 1876 Married
Officers Quarters duplex is really interesting. The association
was founded in 1976 in order to ... read
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Officer
Quarters
There is a row of homes that served as Officer Quarters. A couple
of the buildings have been torn down ... read
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Adjutants
Office
The original wooden Post Headquarters and Officer Quarters on this
spot was replaced by this brick and concrete building in the late
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Chapel
The chapel was built in 1944 by German prisoners of war who were
housed at Fort Rent. The chapel is available for rentals for weddings
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Cavalry
Barracks
Both of the Cavalry Barracks buildings are located on the north
side of the Parade Grounds and just west of the Chapel ... read
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Guard
House
This Guard House or jail was constructed in 1888. The annex was
added to the west side at the turn of the century to serve as a
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Commissary
The large and impressive 1885 Commissar is constructed of red brick.
This building is over 200 feet long and covers ... read
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1885
Ordnance Magazine
This humble little building known as the "Ordnance Magazine'
is where weapons and ammunition were stored, giving it an inordinately
large ... read
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Cavalry
Stables
The U.S. Cavalry Association has also been renovating the 1876 Cavalry
Stables farther back in the Fort Reno complex ... read
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Cemetery
The fort cemetery for soldiers stationed there, their family members
and civilian fort workers. During WWII 70 POWs were buried here
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USDA
Offices
This was originally built in 1939 as officer's baracks and then
turned into a hospital in the mid 1940s.USDA accquired the Fort
in ... read more |
School
This was at various times a school, a chapel and the home of Ben
Clark. The 1878 building was waiting for its turn when we visited
in 2013 ... read more |
Stay tuned,
there's more to come!
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