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5 unusual facts about Camp Collins


Camp Collins

The growing hostility of the Lakota to white encroachment further north had forced the temporary relocation of the Emigrant Trail from the North Platte River to the South Platte valley.

Elizabeth Hickok Robbins Stone

They then went north to Camp Collins, Colorado and built a house to provide the army officers' mess.

:The army decommissioned Camp Collins in March 1867, so the house built as an officer's mess was turned into the first hotel in Fort Collins, Colorado by Stone, which housed and fed Overland Trail travelers.

She was the first Euro American woman settler who created a sense of community for the soldiers at Camp Collins and the only woman founder of the town of Fort Collins.

Laporte, Colorado

In 1862, Camp Collins was established by the U.S. Army along the river to protect the stage line from attack by Native Americans.



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