page_title: Fort Wallace
section_title: Fort Wallace Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Fort Wallace / Fort Wallace Museum
caption_attribution_description: Officers at Fort Wallace, Kansas, with Dr. Theophilus Turner second on the left. Turner found the original fossils of the plesiosaur Elasmosaurus near Fort Wallace.
context_page_description: Fort Wallace was a US Cavalry fort built in Wallace County, Kansas to help defend settlers against Cheyenne and Sioux raids. All that remains today is the cemetery, but for a period of over a decade Fort Wallace was one of the most important military outposts on the frontier.
context_section_description: Today, Fort Wallace is represented by a privately operated museum nearby in the town of Wallace, with relics from the fort as well as photos, reproduction items, and literature covering the post's history and the settlement of the Great Plains. A casting of the plesiosaur discovered by Dr. Turner and Scout William Comstock is also on display. Facades of some of the buildings from Fort Wallace and from the Old Town of Wallace are featured in the Milford Becker Addition opened in 2017.
caption: Officers at Fort Wallace in 1867, including Theophilus H. Turner, who discovered Elasmosaurus in the area the same year, second from the left
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