Fort McKavett -- Fort McKavett SHS
N 30° 49.480 W 100° 06.646
14R E 393762 N 3410698
When the WPA writers visited here, Fort McKavett was a town existing among the fort's ruins. Since the 1980s, Fort McKavett has been a state historic site -- visitors, but no townsfolks, then or now.
Waymark Code: WMV1EX
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/07/2017
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The waymark coordinates are for the Fort McKavett State Historic site, southwest of Menard TX.
In the 1930s, WPA writers visited here an found a town among the ruins.
From Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State:
"Westward the road leads to the town of FORT McKAVETT (no pop.),
23 m., housed in the former buildings of Fort McKavett, established by the Federal government in 1852."
Book: Texas
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 502
Year Originally Published: 1940
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