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Bent's Old Fort NHS
courtesy of the National Park Service

June 3

1960
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site is established as a unit of the National Park Service near La Junta, CO. For much of its 16-year history (1833-1849), the fort was the only major permanent white settlement on the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and the Mexican settlements.

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