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Site of Anderson's Fort or Soldier's Mound

Spur, Dickens County

Marker Text

Here behind extensive breastworks Major Thomas M. Anderson, Tenth U. S. Infantry, maintained a supply camp for the Cavalry under General Ranald S. Mackenzie, Fourth U.S. Cavalry, who in 1874-1875 forced the Indians of the region onto reservations and opened the plains to white settlement.

Marker Details

Address
Location Description From Spur, take Highway 70 north, about 6 miles
Marker # 4721
Dedicated 1936
Size, Type 1936 Texas Centennial
Code forts; Native Americans
Latitude, Longitude 33.525372, -100.844902

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