The New International Encyclopædia/Fort Meade

FORT MEADE. A United States military post, established in 1878, and occupying a reservation of 7842 acres, in Meade County, near Sturgis, S. D., on the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad. There are quarters for 25 officers and 500 men, and stables for 600 horses. It was improved and modernized in 1902.