| Marker Number |
1995 |
| Atlas Number |
5059001995 |
| Marker Title |
Fort Mason-Camp Cooper Military Road |
| Index Entry |
Fort Mason - Camp Cooper Military Road |
| Address |
|
| City |
Cross Plains |
| County |
Callahan |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
483395 |
| UTM Northing |
3553905 |
| Subject Codes |
roads; military topics |
| Marker Year |
1967 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
Treadway Park on SH 36, western city limits |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
Route for U.S. 2nd Cavalry and supplies from San Antonio to Fort Mason (about 100 miles south of here) to Camp Cooper (about 65 miles north) in campaigns of 1851-1861 against Plains Indians. Great military men of American history traveled this road, including Robert E. Lee (later a commanding general, C.S.A.) and George T. Thomas, "Rock of Chickamauga." Callahan County Historical Survey Committee, 1967. |
