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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 ...
Indiana State Soldiers Home, West Lafayette, Indiana [41] Iowa Veterans Home, Marshalltown, Iowa [42] Kansas Soldiers' Home, Fort Dodge, Kansas [43] Kansas State Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Western Branch National Military Home, Leavenworth, Kansas [37] Confederate Soldiers' Home and Widows' and Orphans' Asylum, Georgetown, Kentucky [44]
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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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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.
Life for the soldiers at a frontier post like Fort Worth (1849-1853) was tedious and joyless, an endless series of drills and fatigue duties relieved only occasionally by free time.