RAVENNA, Neb. (AP) — A historical marker commemorating a former U.S. Army outpost in Buffalo County will be repaired as part of a statewide effort to spiff up more than 100 such markers.

The Nebraska Marker Project was established earlier this year to help the Nebraska State Historical Society. The project goal is to raise $80,000 to repair and preserve the markers in anticipation of the state’s 150th-anniversary celebration next year.

The marker sits a mile southeast of Ravenna (ruh-VEH’-nuh) along Nebraska Highway 2. It notes the nearby former site of Post South Loup Fork, an outpost of Fort Kearney. The outpost was established in May 1865 by Company E of the 7th Iowa Cavalry and abandoned three months later.

Local legends say the outpost also was called Fort Desolation and Fort Banishment.