Editing Fort Lupton, Colorado (section)

==History==
The city was named for Lieutenant [[Lancaster Lupton]], who built a trading post on Adobe Creek in 1838.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=9474|title=Profile for Fort Lupton, Colorado|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|access-date=June 15, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n128 129]}}</ref> The trading post, [[Fort Lupton (Colorado)|Fort Lupton]], has been reconstructed near the site of the original fort using some of the original adobe bricks at the South Platte Valley Historical Park, which was established by the South Platte Valley Historical Society northwest of the city of Fort Lupton. It is a historical park about early area settlement.<ref name="CBS">{{Cite news |url=http://denver.cbslocal.com/2011/09/04/the-new-fort-lupton-rises-on-the-banks-of-the-south-platte-river/ |title=The New Fort Lupton Rises On The Banks Of The South Platte River |date=September 4, 2011 |work=CBS Denver |access-date=June 7, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.spvhs.org/ |title=South Platte Valley Historical Society Home Page |work=South Platte Valley Historical Society  |access-date=June 7, 2018|quote=Since there will likely be a currency issue with the home page: 'The South Platte Valley Historical Society has a mission to preserve the history of the South Platte Valley area.  The Society is creating a one-hundred acre history park on the north side of Fort Lupton with facilities dedicated to education and historic interpretation... Visit the Society's South Platte Valley Historical Park - Lupton's Fort and the South Platte Valley Settlement...  Northwest of the city of Fort Lupton off of Highway 85.  The historical park is 1/4 mile West of Highway 85 off of County Road 141/2. Turn right onto Historic Park Way.'}}</ref>