Details for Site of Camp Verde
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5265004748
Data
| Marker Number | 4748 |
| Atlas Number | 5265004748 |
| Marker Title | Site of Camp Verde |
| Index Entry | Camp Verde, Site of |
| Address | Camp Verde Road |
| City | Kerrville |
| County | Kerr |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 488430 |
| UTM Northing | 3306638 |
| Subject Codes | forts; military topics |
| Marker Year | 1936 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | From Kerrville take SH 173 S approximately 13 miles to Camp Verde. Marker is on farm road .5 miles W of Camp Verde Store. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 1936 Centennial Marker (gray granite) |
| Marker Text | Established as a frontier post by the United States Army, July 8, 1855; headquarters in 1856 for 40 camels, sent by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, to be used in a system of overland communication with the west, which proved impracticable. Surrendered to the Confederate government in 1861; reoccupied in 1865 by the United States Army; abandoned April 1, 1869. |