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Fort Supply Timeline
- November 18, 1868
- Camp Supply established near the confluence of the Beaver River and Wolf Creek in northwest Indian Territory.
- November 23, 1868
- Lieutenant Colonel George Custer’s Seventh Cavalry depart Camp Supply for the Battle of the Washita.
- December 7, 1868
- General Sheridan, Custer and troops depart Camp Supply to continue the Winter Campaign of 1868–69.
- March 28, 1869
- Custer and the Seventh Cavalry with captive Indian chiefs return to Camp Supply at the close of the campaign.
- 1869–70
- Camp Supply is temporary Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency.
- June 11, 1870
- Troops repulse attack by Satanta’s Kiowas and Comanches in the Battle of Camp Supply.
- 1874–75
- Camp Supply is the primary supply base for General Nelson Miles’s troops during the Red River War.
- December 30, 1878
- Camp Supply officially named Fort Supply by General Order No. 9.
- May 5, 1879
- Fort Supply soldiers ordered to expel boomers illegally entering the Cherokee Outlet.
- April 27, 1889
- Fort Supply troops assist with the opening of the Unassigned Lands, the Land Run of 1889.
- September 16, 1893
- Troops patrol borders at the opening of the Cherokee Outlet, the Land Run of 1893
- September 15, 1894
- General Order No. 45, Headquarters of the Army, closes Fort Supply.
- February 26, 1895
- Fort Supply placed in custody of the Department of Interior.
- May 20, 1908
- Oklahoma’s first insane asylum, now Western State Psychiatric Center, occupies the old post.
- July 1, 1988
- Oklahoma State Legislature, SB No. 403, designates Fort Supply Historic District.
- December 6, 1988
- William S. Key Correctional Center dedicated at Historic Fort Supply.