Historical Markers in Platteville, Colorado

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Historical Markers in Platteville, Colorado

1 ► Colorado, Weld County, Platteville — Fort Vasquez —

In this area along the South Platte River, competing fur companies in the late 1830's established a string of four adobe trading posts -- Fort Vasquez, Fort St. Vrain, Fort Jackson and Fort Lupton traversed by the Old Trapper's Trail which . . . — — Map (db m89596) HM

2 ► Colorado, Weld County, Platteville — Fort Vasquez —

Established in 1837 by Louis Vasquez and Andrew W. Sublette. Maintained until 1842 as a post for trade in buffalo robes and beaver skins with Arapahoes and Cheyennes. Rendezvous of early trappers. Emigrant station on Platte River Trail after . . . — — Map (db m89597) HM

3 ► Colorado, Weld County, Platteville — Fort Vasquez / Fort Vasquez Country —

Fort Vasquez As trappers and explorers, Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette helped build the lucrative fur trade. But by 1835, when they raised Fort Vasquez midway between Fort Laramie and Bent's Old Fort along Trapper's Trail and . . . — — Map (db m120215) HM

4 ► Colorado, Weld County, Platteville — Fort Vasquez Trading Post — 1835 — Welcome - Bienvenido - Bonjour —

You are standing at the north edge of a historic adobe fort of the fur trade era, founded by Andrew W. Sublette and Pierre Louis Vasquez in 1835 to support trade with the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. These men and their fellow trappers were . . . — — Map (db m89619) HM

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