Fort Lancaster (Tex.)
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Name (Latin)
Fort Lancaster (Tex.)
Other forms of name
Camp Lancaster (Tex.)
Lancaster, Fort (Tex.)
Coordinates
-101.6962576 -101.6962576 30.66668375 30.66668375 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Fortification Texas
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q5471452
Library of congress:
sh 98007889
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 98-54581: Fort Lancaster, 1998.
- Encyc. of hist. forts., 1988:p. 766-67 (Fort Lancaster; located on Live Oak Creek near present town of Sheffield in Crockett County, Tex.; estab. Aug. 20, 1855 and called Camp Lancaster; designated Fort Lancaster Aug. 21, 1856)
- Texas Parks & Historic Sites web site, Dec. 22, 1998(Fort Lancaster State Historical Park, 81.6 acres located west of Ozona in Crockett County. Fort was abandoned Mar. 19, 1861)
Wikipedia description:
Fort Lancaster is a former United States Army installation located near Sheffield, Texas. The fort was established in 1855 on the San Antonio–El Paso Road to protect migrants moving toward California through Texas. The US Army occupied Fort Lancaster until Texas seceded from the United States in March 1861 and were replaced at the fort by forces loyal to the Confederate States of America. The Confederate Army held the fort from November 1861 until April 1862, when it was again abandoned and then burned. The 82-acre site, now operated by the Texas Historical Commission as Fort Lancaster State Historic Site, contains the ruins of 29 buildings that made up the fort and a visitor center with a museum.
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