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A cemetery was established to inter residents who died and needed a place to be buried. As of 2010 approximately 400 veterans were buried in the Kansas Soldiers' Home Cemetery. In 2002 a new cemetery was established, the Kansas Veterans' Cemetery at Fort Dodge. As of 2010 166 veterans and dependents were buried there.
Dodge City residents worked to have the old fort used for a retired soldiers' home, since most of the buildings were still functional. After much work toward that goal, a federal law was enacted in 1889 authorizing the use of the post as a soldiers' home by the State of Kansas. In early 1890 the Kansas Soldiers' Home was opened on the site. The ...
An old soldiers' home is a military veterans' retirement home, ... Kansas Soldiers' Home, Fort Dodge, Kansas ... Soldiers home in Dayton, Ohio.
Fort Dodge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Grandview Township, Ford County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 97. [2] It is located on U.S. Route 400 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Dodge City. Fort Dodge has a post office with ZIP code 67843. [3]
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It appropriated funds for construction of the United States Soldiers' Home. The Soldiers' Home was open to all men who were regular or volunteer members of the army with 20 years' service and who had contributed to the home's support through pay withdrawals. When the Soldiers' Home was being organized in 1851 and 1852, it was intended to have ...
Fort Dodge was United States Army outpost about five miles from Dodge City. On October 4, 1878, at 4 am, cowboy James Kennedy (1855–1884), known a Spike , fired shots in to Kelley home, thinking the mayor was home sleeping, one of the shots hit Hand in the side and killed her instantly, she was 34-years old.
The monument is located in the Soldier's Lot of the Baxter Springs Cemetery, and is dedicated to the 132 soldiers who died in the Battle of Baxter Springs October 8, 1863. Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Memorial Arch , erected 1898 in Junction City, Kansas , NRHP-listed