Fort Douglas has been a part of Utah history since 1862 when it first housed soldiers working to protect the Overland mail route and keep an eye on early settlers.
For more than a century and a half, different eras of the Utah narrative have found a place in Fort Douglas. Soldiers during both world wars slept in barracks within the fort’s red brick walls. Cavalry and draft horses were held inside the sandstone walls of the stables.
If you stood on the parade ground in the early 1900s, you might have even heard members of the 24th Regiment of the famed buffalo soldiers playing baseball.
Now, the halls of Fort Douglas are empty, but the end of the site’s chapter as a military fort turns the page to start a new one…