Fort St. Vrain Cemetery, West of Gilcrest, Colorado 
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    Researched and compiled by Wayne and Karen McGuire
    We appreciate the kind help of the Greeley Museum and the Platteville Pioneer Museum.

    Fort St. Vrain and St. Vrain Cemetery
    
    There is no cemetery at Fort St. Vrain, although in our research we found rumors of burials around there,
    no cemetery has ever been found.  The land where the fort once stood was leveled by the farmer who owned 
    it in the 1950's.  All that exists there today is monument placed there in 1911 by the DAR.  The town of 
    St. Vrain was apparently an "on paper only" town as it never came to be, so there was no cemetery there either. 
    To reach the site of Fort St. Vrain - travel just south of Gilcrest (near Greeley) on U.S. 85 to Weld Country 
    Road 40.  Turn on it to the west and follow it to the end even though you think you are going to end up in a 
    pasture. At the end, you will see the monument on the original site of the fort. 
    Fort St. Vrain was a fur trading post that was established in about 1838 by the people who started Bent's Fort 
    in southern Colorado.  It was called both Fort Lookout and Fort George a times.  Marcellin St. Vrain was the 
    proprietor.  It was gradually abandoned some time between the 1840's and the 1850's.