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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.