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4 unusual facts about Fort Lyon


2nd Regiment California Volunteer Infantry

Company K, Ordered to Fort Humboldt December, 1861, thence to Fort Lyon and Fort Gaston, and duty there until June, 1863.

Fort Lyon

In September, 2013, Governor John Hickenlooper announced that Fort Lyon had reopened as a rehabilitation center for homeless people.

John H. Flavell

In 1955-1956 Flavell worked as a clinical psychologist at Fort Lyon V.A. hospital in Colorado.

Josephine Beatrice Bowman

She also served as chief nurse at Fort Lyon, Colorado, a Navy tuberculosis sanitarium for sailors and marines.


Colorado State Highway 183

The highway goes south, ending at a junction with CR HH at Fort Lyon, formerly used as a prison by the Colorado Department of Corrections.


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