Fort Sill National Historic Landmark

Fort Sill is the only active U.S. Army installation from the southern plains Indian Wars era. Founded in 1869 by Major General Philip Sheridan to control the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache, it became the army's main artillery school in 1911 and remains so today. The historic core — the old post, stone barracks, parade ground, and chapel — is a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public.

The Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum complex includes the Visitor Center, the old Guard House, several restored barracks, and the artillery park. Free entry; bring photo ID for the gate. Allow at least two hours. The Apache Prisoner of War cemetery, where Geronimo is buried, is a short drive from the museum complex.

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Geronimo, the Chiricahua Apache leader, was held at Fort Sill as a prisoner of war for the last 23 years of his life. He worked the post farms, sold his autograph at country fairs, and died of pneumonia in 1909. His grave, in the Apache Prisoner of War cemetery on post, is marked by an eagle-topped stone cairn.

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