Fort Lupton

Of the post the bronze points to, one adobe wall was left standing and a single wagonload of its bricks was saved. Lancaster Lupton called it Fort Lancaster and had it built by craftsmen brought up from Taos, on the plan of Bent's Fort, for the Arapaho and Cheyenne trade. The South Platte Valley Historical Society was founded in 1988 to rebuild it, broke ground a few yards south of the original in 2004, and in 2011 opened a stucco-walled copy, raised with some 23,000 volunteer hours and original bricks set into its walls.

What the plaque says

This memorial is the property of the State of Colorado Due west ¼ mile is the site of Fort Lupton Established in 1836 by Lieut. Lancaster P. Lupton A rendezvous of the early fur traders visited by Fremont and Kit Carson in 1843 Farming begun here in the early forties Overland stage station and refuge from Indians in the sixties Erected by the State Historical Society of Colorado from the Mrs. J. N. Hall Foundation and by the Thursday Afternoon Club, citizens, and pioneers of Fort Lupton 1929

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge — 20 mi
  Mustard gas, nerve agent and pesticides for forty years, then bald eagles, bison and black-footed ferrets on the same ground.
• Colorado State Capitol — 26 mi
  A capitol of Colorado granite, marble, onyx and gold, with three different steps claiming to stand exactly a mile high.

More markers nearby

• Fort Vasquez — 6.6 mi
• Fort Junction — 9.8 mi
• Evans — 20 mi
• Platte River Trail — 23 mi