Site of Camp Verde
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WalksfarTX
N 29° 53.426 W 099° 07.224
14R E 488374 N 3306651
A gray granite 1936 marker at entrance to private property where the remains of the military post are located.
Waymark Code: WM16R7R
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/22/2022
Views: 6
Marker gives one point of view of why the camel experiment was ended. According to local tradition, the camels passed every test of their ability - carrying heavier loads and traveling longer distances than the mules and horses used in the area. However, the locals contend, the War Department sorely needed funds for Reconstruction after the Civil War so the fort was deactivated in 1869, ending the experiment.
Marker Number: 4748
Marker Text:
Established as a frontier post
by the United States Army,
July 8, 1855
headquarters in 1856 for 40 camels
sent by Secretary of War
Jefferson Davis, to be used in a
system of overland communication
with the west, which proved impracticable
surrendered to the Confederate
government in 1861
reoccupied in 1865 by the
United States Army
abandoned April 1, 1869Erected by the State of Texas
1936
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