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Fort Washakie Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Fort Washakie Building #1
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Nearest city	Fort Washakie, Wyoming
Coordinates	43°00′23″N 108°52′56″W / 43.00639°N 108.88222°W / 43.00639; -108.88222
Area	23 acres (9.3 ha)
Built	1869 (1869)
NRHP reference No.	69000188
Added to NRHP	April 16, 1969

Fort Washakie was a U.S. Army fort in what is now the U.S. state of Wyoming. The fort was established in 1869 and named Camp Augur after General Christopher C. Augur, commander of the Department of the Platte. In 1870 the camp was renamed Camp Brown in honor of Captain Frederick H. Brown, who was killed in the Fetterman Massacre in 1866.

It was renamed again in 1878 in honor of Chief Washakie of the Shoshone tribe, making the fort one of the only U.S. military outposts named after a Native American. (Another fort named for a Native American was Fort E.S. Parker, the original Crow Agency in Montana that operated from 1869 to 1875, which was named after the Seneca lawyer Eli Parker, who was a General under Ulysses Grant.)

Fort Washakie was operated as a military outpost until 1909, when it was decommissioned and turned over to the Shoshone Indian Agency. The graves of Washakie and Lewis and Clark Expedition guide Sacajawea are located on the grounds of the fort. The site is included within the present-day Wind River Indian Reservation.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Camp Augur". wyomingplaces.org.
3. Herbard, Grace Raymond. Marking the Oregon Trail, the Bozeman Road and Historic Places in Wyoming 1908-1920. p. 10.

External links

Media related to Fort Washakie Historic District at Wikimedia Commons

• Fort Washakie, Building No. 1, Washakie Street, Fort Washakie, Fremont, WY at the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
• Fort Washakie, Building No. 67, Sacajawea Circle, Fort Washakie, Fremont, WY at HABS
• Fort Washakie, Building No. 68, Sacajawea Circle, Fort Washakie, Fremont, WY at HABS
• Fort Washakie, Building No. 69, Sacajawea Circle, Fort Washakie, Fremont, WY at HABS
• Fort Washakie, Building No. 70, Sacajawea Circle, Fort Washakie, Fremont, WY at HABS
• Fort Washakie, Building No. 71, Sacajawea Circle, Fort Washakie, Fremont, WY at HABS
• Fort Washakie, Building No. 72, Sacajawea Circle, Fort Washakie, Fremont, WY at HABS
• Fort Washakie, Building No. 73, Sacajawea Circle, Fort Washakie, Fremont, WY at HABS
• Fort Washakie, Building No. 74, Sacajawea Circle, Fort Washakie, Fremont, WY at HABS

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Fremont County, Wyoming
National Historic Landmark	South Pass
Historic districts	Carpenter Hotel Historic District CM Ranch and Simpson Lake Cabins Diamond A Ranch Fort Washakie Historic District Hamilton City Lander Downtown Historic District Quien Sabe Ranch South Pass Historic District St. Michael's Mission T Cross Ranch Rural Historic District Torrey Lake Historic District Torrey Lake Petroglyph District Twin Pines Lodge and Cabin Camp
Historic properties	Atlantic City Mercantile BMU Bridge over Wind River Brooks Lake Lodge Castle Gardens Petroglyph Site Dean Decker Site Delfelder Schoolhouse ELS Bridge over Big Wind River ELY Wind River Diversion Dam Bridge Green Mountain Arrow Site High Rise Village Jackson Park Town Site Addition Brick Row C. H. King Company and First National Bank of Shoshoni Helen Lookingbill Site Riverton Railroad Depot Shoshone-Episcopal Mission Split Rock Prehistoric Site Union Pass US Post Office and Courthouse-Lander Welty's General Store Wind River Agency Blockhouse
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Fremont County, Wyoming and List of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming

• Forts in Wyoming
• Former installations of the United States Army
• Buildings and structures in Fremont County, Wyoming
• Wyoming Territory
• Civilian Conservation Corps in Wyoming
• Historic American Buildings Survey in Wyoming
• Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
• National Register of Historic Places in Fremont County, Wyoming
• 1869 establishments in Wyoming Territory
• Wind River Indian Reservation