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Fort
Richardson State Park & Historic Site
228 State Park Road 61
Jacksboro
TX 76458
940-567-3506
Open 7 days a week
Lost Creek Reservoir State Trailway - An approximately 10-mile hike,
bike and equestrian trail. |
1936 Centennial
Highway Marker -
On US 281 1/2 mile south of Jacksboro
Fort Richardson
Established November
26, 1867 by the United States Army to defend the frontier against
the Indians. A mail station on the Butterfield Overland Stage Line,
1858-1861. Abandoned as a military post May 23, 1879. |
A Visit to
Fort Richardson State Park
Photos courtesy
Mike
Price |
Officers' Quarters
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Photo courtesy Mike
Price, 2007 |
Historical
Marker:
Officers' Quarters
Built in 1867 of
lumber cut from cottonwoods growing in nearby river bottoms. One of
5 original officers' quarters. Outlasted fort's barracks and stables,
which were built of small vertical timbers (pickets).
Style typical of 19th century army posts in the west. Only one left
standing the United States.
Among men quartered here was General Ranald S. MacKenzie, who sent
Indians back to reservations, 1871-74.
Restored by City of Jacksboro. Maintained by Girl Scouts.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1964. |
Historical
Marker
Fort Richardson
Cavalry Post Hospital, 1867
In fort built to
halt Indian depredations in North
Texas. One of buildings and units on inspection in May 1871 by
General William Tecumseh Sherman, when news came of massacre
of Warren Wagon Trail, 24 miles northwest. Killers, later found
at Fort Sill, were brought to trial in Jacksboro
- first time Indians were ever tried in the white man's court in North
Texas.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1965. |
1936
Centennial Marker Text
Fort Richardson
As partially reconstructed
in 1936. Established by the United States War Department on November
26, 1867 as a protection of the frontier against hostile Indians.
Named in honor of General Israel B. Richardson, U.S.A., killed at
Antietam, September 17, 1862. Abandoned May 23, 1878 as the line of
settlement had passed westward. |
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