"FORT RICHARDSON" - Jacksboro, Texas
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N 33° 12.378 W 098° 09.804
14S E 577970 N 3674469
A Texas frontier fort in Jacksboro.
Waymark Code: WMWXG
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/30/2006
Views: 95
Fort Richardson was officially established in February 1868 in order to provide protection against marauding bands of Comanche and Kiowa Indians on the North Texas frontier and named for Union general Israel Bush (Fighting Dick) Richardson. The unstockaded reservation occupied some 300 acres on Lost Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River, one-half mile south of Jacksboro, in Jack County. Eventually fifty-five stone, picket, and cottonwood-lumber buildings were constructed at an estimated cost to the government of $800,000. Located seventy miles from the Indian Territory and 120 miles from Fort Sill, Richardson was the northernmost army outpost in Texas and the anchor of a defensive line of fortifications that included forts Griffin and Concho. For a brief period from 1868 to 1873 Richardson was strategically the most important post in Texas, and in 1872 it had the largest garrison (666 officers and men) among military installations in the United States.
The year the "Fort" was constructed or started.: 1867
Name of "Country" or "Nation" that constructed this "Fort": United States
Was this "Fort" involved in any armed conflicts?: Yes it was
What was the primary purpose of this "Historic Fort"?: Used for defence of a border or land claim.
Current condition: Reconstructed
This site is administered by ----: Texas Parks and Wildlife
If admission is charged -: 3.00 (listed in local currency)
Open to the public?: Open or unrestricted access.
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