# Fort Washington (1868)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/
- Also known as: the fort at Ben Quick's ranch
- Kind: Forts, raids and the Indian wars
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2677, -104.9511 (from a cited description (good to half a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

A log stockade about eight feet high around Ben Quick's house and barn on upper West Plum Creek, enclosing over an acre; a dozen or fifteen families sheltered there for about two months from August 1868; the men formed a cavalry troop under John A. Koontz (Dakan, 1940).

## Where it was

Half a mile north of GNIS's Glen Grove School (historical): 'only about half mile north of the present sight of your Glen Grove school building' (Albert Dakan's letter of Feb. 23, 1940 to the Glen Grove teacher, Larkspur Historical Society binder 10 pp. 18-19). The point is the center of Sec. 13, T9S R68W, where Quick's later stone house stands; good to about half a mile. Marr: 'three miles west of the People's Fort' (the two points are 3.0 miles apart); Glenn Scott's trail map: 'SW 1/4 sec. 13, T. 9 S., R. 68 W.' (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 104), whose northeast corner this is.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Nearby

- [Quick stone house (1884)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/): 0.4 mi southwest
- [Glen Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove/): 0.5 mi south
- [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 0.6 mi west
- [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 1.1 mi southeast
- [Robinson homestead (Glen Grove PO?)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/robinson-homestead-glen-grove-po/): 2.0 mi south
- [Perry Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park/): 2.3 mi west

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.