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Cantonment

Blaine County
Location: on OK-51, 1/2 mile west of Canton
Coordinates: 36.055893, -98.599748
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Topics: American Indians; Military; Religion/Philosophy; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Colonel Richard Dodge established this post in March 1879 as part of the US Army’s attempt to police the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation. The military abandoned the post three years later. It was subsequently used as a Mennonite mission, a federal Indian school, and an Indian agency.

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