Black plaque № 21863

Burnet, TX, United States

Site of Fort Croghan. Established by Lieut. C. H. Tyler, United States Second Dragoons, by order of the War Department, March 18, 1849, as a protection to frontier settlers against hostile Indians. Abandoned in December, 1853 as the settlements had extended farther west. #9711

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