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Old Post Guard House
Former name
  • Geronimo's Guard House
  • Old Guard House
Established1872
LocationFort Sill, Oklahoma
Coordinates34°40′08″N 98°23′17″W / 34.669017°N 98.388133°W / 34.669017; -98.388133 (Fort Sill's Old Post Guard House)
TypeUnited States Cavalry History Museum
CuratorFort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum
Architect10th Cavalry Regiment

Fort Sill's Old Post Guard House was established from 1872 to 1873 as Cavalry barracks subsequently provisioned for a military stockade. The limestone structure is illustrative of the late 19th century confinement and relief formalities for hostile tribal leaders and Indian prisoners of war at the Fort Sill military camp. The domestic stone framework serves with historical significance considering the calendar span of the American Indian assimilation commencing in the late nineteenth century.

Footnotes

  1. "Post Guardhouse" [Fort Sill in Comanche County, Oklahoma — The American South (West South Central)]. HMDB.org. The Historical Marker Database.
  2. "Geronimo's Guard House". The Gateway to Oklahoma History. Oklahoma Historical Society.
  3. "Old Guard House". The Gateway to Oklahoma History. Oklahoma Historical Society.
  4. Bentley, Bill F. (January 5, 1969). "Geronimo, Fierce Apache, Spent Last 15 Years as POW at Fort Sill". The Lawton Constitution, Vol. 20, No. 1, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 5, 1969. Lawton, Oklahoma: The Lawton Constitution. p. 19F.
  5. Tatro, M. Kaye. "Curtis Act (1898)". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Curtis Act of 1898. Oklahoma Historical Society.