Fort Reno

Fort Reno may refer to any of the three United States Army posts named for General Jesse L. Reno:

  • Fort Reno Park, in Washington, D.C., established 1862 (originally Fort Pennsylvania)
  • Fort Reno (Oklahoma), in present-day Oklahoma, established during the Indian Wars, July 1865
  • Fort Reno (Wyoming), in present-day Wyoming on the Bozeman Trail, established August 1865

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or reno:

    “There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The good lawyer is the great salesman.”
    —Janet Wood Reno (b. 1938)