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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 ...
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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Dora Hand, stage name Fannie Keenan, Kelley's friend and singer, was killed at his home on October 4, 1878 As mayor Kelley worked with the Dodge City Peace Commission (photo) Dodge City in 1875. Beatty and Kelley Restaurant at the corner of First Avenue and Front Street. James H. "Dog" Kelley was the Dodge City, Kansas, mayor from
Fort Atkinson (Kansas) Fort Dodge (United States Army Post) ... Kansas Soldiers' Home; N. National Register of Historic Places listings in Ford County, Kansas
In U.S. Army terms, rows of once spectacular homes that have graced historic Fort Leavenworth for more than 100 years stand in defeat. Like downtrodden troops, grand houses of red brick or yellow ...
This is a list of Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) posts in Kansas, United States. The G.A.R., Department of Kansas was established December 7, 1866. It was preceded by an organization known as the Veteran Brotherhood (and Union Brotherhood), State of Kansas organized in December 1865.