"This Ranger Station was shortly taken over by the Feds and renamed Fort Croghan (??). 1847 that location was way out there, but by 1852 the place was already obsolete and abandoned, indicating just how fast Texas was settling up."
Ft. Croghan is in Burnet county. Matter of fact just above Hamilton Creek in the current city of Burnet. When you drop by sometime we can go over there. Old reenacting bud is a docent there.
Durn it, I thought I wrote Burnet County, my fingers musta wrote otherwise. I corrected the original.
LOL! It’s ok. They right next to each other. Matter of fact back 115 acres here on the place is in Burnet co!
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
