Fort Sedgwick

Historical marker location:

Ovid, Colorado

( Marker is on U.S. 138 just east of 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1940

Due South 1 ¼ Miles is the site of.

Colorado was originally part of the Kansas and Nebraska territories, but was separated and made into its own territory in 1861. It became a state in 1876, 100 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.