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Fort Phantom Hill (Tex. : Fort)


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    • Clear Fork of the Brazos River, Post on the (Tex.)
    • Phantom Hill, Fort (Tex. : Fort)
    • Post on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River (Tex.)

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    • found: Work cat: Wright, Bill. Fort Phantom Hill, 2013:back cover (Fort Phantom Hill in Jones County; traces the the history of the fort's founding, its abandonment, and its various incarnations from the 1850s onward)
    • found: Fort Phantom Hill website, viewed Aug.29, 2017:history (Originally known as "The Post on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River", it was established 14 November 1851. In November 1853, approval was given for the military to abandon the fort, shortly after which the troops left. In 1858, the property was reoccupied as a way station on the Southern Overland Mail route, and the Butterfield Stagecoach set up a stop at the abandoned fort. Fort Phantom Hill was used again during the Civil War by the Confederacy's Frontier Battalion, and in 1871, it became a sub-post of Fort Griffin (near Albany, Texas) and was used by troops engaged in Indian campaigns. After 1875, a town grew up around the ruins of Fort Phantom Hill. The location functioned first as a buying and shipping point for buffalo hides and eventually as a town of more than 500 residents. Fort Phantom Hill also served briefly as the Jones County seat. By the 1890s, Fort Phantom Hill was largely abandoned)
    • found: GNIS, accessed Aug. 29, 2017(Fort Phantom Hill, historical; class: military; Jones County, Texas; also lists historical populated place of same name in approximately same area)

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    • 2017-08-29: new
    • 2017-11-03: revised

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