page_title: Bent's New Fort
hierarchical_section_title: Bent's New Fort
caption_attribution_description: English: Daniel Jenks traveled to Colorado territory in 1859 in search of gold. While there, he made this sketch of Bent’s New Fort, which is one of the earliest known images of the fort.” Photo courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Dept. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 16000666
context_page_description: Bent's New Fort was a fort on the bank of the Arkansas River in what is now Bent County, Colorado, on the Mountain Route branch of the Santa Fe Trail. It was about nine miles west of Lamar, Colorado. William Bent operated a trading post with limited success and in 1860 leased the fort to the United States government, which operated it as a fort until 1867. In 1862, it was named Fort Lyon. It was abandoned after a flood of the Arkansas River in 1867.
  The fort ruins and a portion of the Santa Fe Trail have listed as Santa Fe Trail Mountain Route-Bent's New Fort on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
context_section_description: Bent's New Fort was a fort on the bank of the Arkansas River in what is now Bent County, Colorado, on the Mountain Route branch of the Santa Fe Trail. It was about nine miles west of Lamar, Colorado. (Address restricted in the vicinity of Lamar, Colorado.) William Bent operated a trading post with limited success and in 1860 leased the fort to the United States government, which operated it as a fort until 1867. In 1862, it was named Fort Lyon. It was abandoned after a flood of the Arkansas River in 1867.
  The fort ruins and a portion of the Santa Fe Trail have listed as Santa Fe Trail Mountain Route-Bent's New Fort on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
caption: Daniel Jenks traveled to Colorado territory in 1859 in search of gold. While there, he made this sketch of Bent's New Fort, which is one of the earliest known images of the fort." Photo courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Dept.
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