1 Mile East to Fort Mason - Camp Cooper Military Road

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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." (1967)

Marker No: 1995

Aluminum 20 x 20 Subject Marker 

Geographic: 32.121395, -99.176033

Location: Treadway Park on SH 36, western city limits