Name: Fort Adams
County: Goshen
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Feature Type: Locale
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Other Names: Adams Fort
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Fort established two miles from Fort Laramie trading post.
Source: WPA
Fort at the mouth of the Laramie River.
Source: Coutant
In his History of Wyoming, I.S. Bartlett comments:
"The names Adams, John and Platte have also been attributed to Fort Laramie, but they are simply other trading posts in that vicinity and were independent establishments. Investigation shows that they were not located at the point where Fort Laramie stood and were not transferred with the old trading post when it was sold to the Government ...
To establish the separate identity of Forts Adams, John and Platte it is sufficient to say Fort Adams is described by Fremont as being two miles from Fort Laramie; that Fort John was built several miles away in 1839 and abandoned in 1846 and Fort Platte, three miles distant on the Platte was not built until 1840."
Source: Trenholm, Footprints
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