• Photo by: Max Kandler

    Fort Davis

    National Historic Site Texas

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    Our park museum will be closed April 15, 2013 till 2014. This will also affect our park orientation film screening; it will be limited to 8-10 visitors at a time. The rest of the park is open for visitation. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

A Frontier Post

Fort Davis is one of the best surviving examples of an Indian Wars' frontier military post in the Southwest. From 1854 to 1891, Fort Davis was strategically located to protect emigrants, mail coaches, and freight wagons on the Trans-Pecos portion of the San Antonio-El Paso Road and on the Chihuahua Trail.

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Did You Know?

Commanding officer's quarters during winter.

One of the most professional officers to command Fort Davis (1879-81) was Major Napoleon Bonaparte McLaughlen who enlisted as a dragoon (cavalry) private in 1850 and during the Civil War rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general.