Last updated: February 6, 2024
Place
Fort Boggy State Park
Photo/Texas Parks and Wildlife/Chase Foundation
Quick Facts
Location:
4994 Highway 75 South , Centerville, TX 75835
Significance:
Fort Boggy gives visitors a taste of frontier life during the Mexican period.
MANAGED BY:
Desperate to protect themselves from nearby American Indians, settlers between the Navasota and Trinity rivers built a fort in 1840. It initially bore the name of the Erwin family, but--seeing as the site was so close to Boggy Creek--the fort eventually became known as Fort Boggy. The leader of the Texas Rangers sent to help, Capt. Thomas Greer, was killed on a scouting expedition in 1841. The original families soon left the site; Indian attacks became less frequent, and the fort fell into disrepair.
Site Information
Location (4994 Highway 75 South , Centerville, TX 75835)
The fort consisted of two small blockhouses (fortified buildings that usually include ports for firing outwards) and eleven dwellings inside an area just less than one square mile.