Cemeteries in Fort Lyon, Colorado

Private Cemeteries in Fort Lyon, Colorado often have specific restrictions, such as religious affiliation or family connections. Military Cemeteries in Fort Lyon, Colorado are primarily for veterans and individuals who have served in the armed forces, and in some cases, their family members. Public Cemeteries in Fort Lyon, Colorado are open to the general public without any particular restrictions.

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Old Fort Lyon was the staging post used by Colonel John Chivington in 1864 as he led an attack on friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho camps that became known as the Sand Creek massacre.

There are two national cemeteries in Colorado, Fort Logan and Fort Lyon, and two state veteran's cemeteries, one in Grand Junction and one in Monte Vista.

In 1864, the U. S. Army carried out a surprise attack on a non-combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along the Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, killing about 160 men, women, and children, including elderly or infirm.

Fort Lyon is important for its role as an army post, a navy hospital, and a veterans' hospital. Beginning in 1867, the fort served as part of the army's Department of the Missouri, a regional network of forts and military facilities in the Missouri River drainage.