| The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000. |
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| Fort Sill |
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| Fort Sill, U.S. military reservation (148 sq mi/383 sq km), Comanche co., SW Okla., 4 mi/6.4 km N of Lawton; 25 mi/48 km long (E-W), c.5 mi/8 km wide. It is home of the U.S. Army Artillery and Missile Center. Est. 1869 by Gen. Philip Sheridan, the fort was named in memory of Joshua W. Sill, a Civil War general. The Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche, and other Native Amer. groups were ordered to live on the reservation and trained in agr.; Geronimo (buried in the Apache cemetery here) was imprisoned at the fort. Almost abandoned in 1904, it was revitalized by the establishment (1911) of a school that was to become the U.S. army’s main field-artillery training base. There are 48 designated historic sites in the Fort Sill area. W entrance at Cache. Henry Post Army Airfield in S part; Wichita Mts. to NW. Fort Sill Mus. |
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