New Fort Hall
On May 27, 1870, the US Army built another military Fort Hall on Lincoln Creek, 12 miles east of the Snake River and about 25 miles northeast of the old Fort Hall. Captain James Edward Putnam and a company of U.S. Army soldiers built the new facility. Army soldiers were garrisoned to protect stagecoach travelers, the US mail, and workers going to mining areas in the Northwest. The Army abandoned the fort on June 11, 1883.
The federal government transferred the land and barracks to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which adapted the buildings as an Indian boarding school. This was part of a late-nineteenth century movement to establish residential schools for immersion education of Native American children to learn the English language and European-American culture. The buildings were eventually relocated to Ross Fork Creek within the reservation.
None of the original buildings remains at either site. The 1870 site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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