Site of Fort Supply

The abandonment the plaque records was a burning. As Albert Sidney Johnston's army approached in the Utah War, Mormon riders led by William Hickman set fire to Fort Supply and Fort Bridger on the night of October 7, 1857, to keep the soldiers from using them. Fort Supply was never rebuilt, and after the war its ground lay inside the Army's new Fort Bridger reservation. It had begun as a mission: thirty-nine young men called at the church's October 1853 conference, sent to raise crops for emigrants and to preach to the Shoshone.

What the plaque says

Site of Fort Supply Established in November, 1853, by Captain John Nebeker and Captain Isaac Bullock who located here with a number of Latter Day Saints. This was the first place in Wyoming where land was irrigated. Abandoned in 1857 The site was given to Wyoming by Anton Hansen Erected by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming 1937

Where it stands

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