Showing posts with label Ft. Phil Kearny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ft. Phil Kearny. Show all posts

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Sunday Morning Scene: Churches of the West: Chapel, Ft. Phil Kearny, Wyoming

Churches of the West: Chapel, Ft. Phil Kearny, Wyoming:





This will, undoubtedly, be an unusual entry here. Where's the church?

Well, this is where it was. This was the location of Ft. Phil Kearny's post chapel. The entire post was destroyed after the Army evacuated this post as a result of the settlement that resulted ending Red Cloud's War. The destruction of the post left the locations of fort structures, and even the dimensions of the fort, a mystery up until quite recently.

This was an Army chapel, so I don't know if we can say if it had a denomination, but the Army chaplain stationed here, who also taught at the post grade school, was a Methodist minister.

Ft. Phil Kearny was constructed in 1866.