| Gordon Stockade | |
|---|---|
| Custer State Park Near Custer, South Dakota | |
  Gordon Stockade  Gordon Stockade | |
| Coordinates | 43°46′11.3″N 103°31′50.6″W / 43.769806°N 103.530722°W |
| Type | Stockade |
| Site information | |
| Open to the public | Yes |
| Condition | Reconstructed |
| Site history | |
| Built | December 23, 1874 |
| In use | 1874–20th century |
| Materials | Wood |
| Battles/wars | Great Sioux War of 1876 |
| Events | Black Hills gold rush |
Gordon Stockade, originally called Fort Defiance, was a stockade fortification on French Creek in the Black Hills, located today off of U.S. 16 near Custer, South Dakota, United States. It was erected in December 1874 by the Gordon Party, an expedition of white settlers who travelled to the Black Hills at the beginning of the gold rush, on the site of a previous encampment by George Armstrong Custer's Black Hills Expedition. The party's settlement of the area was illegal under the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie and the group was removed by the United States Army in April 1875, who subsequently began using the Gordon Stockade as a base. Now part of Custer State Park, the fort was recreated in its current form in 2004 and is open to the public.