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Site of the Kickapoo Battlefield

Frankston, Anderson County

Marker Text

Here General Thomas J. Rusk with 200 Texans on October 16, 1838, attacked a band of hostile Indians and allied Mexicans, molestors of frontier settlements, and routed them.

Marker Details

Address
Location Description about 2 mi. SE of Frankston on FM 19 - just before CR 318
Marker # 8770
Dedicated 1936
Size, Type 1936 Centennial - Subject Marker (gray granite)
Code Native Americans
Latitude, Longitude 32.023952, -95.488462

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