Site of Camp Worth DAR Marker -- Fort Worth, TX, USA
N 32° 45.445 W 097° 20.058
14S E 656036 N 3625622
A beautiful bronze relief panel featuring an artist's concept of life at Camp Worth on a DAR monument in downtown Fort Worth
Waymark Code: WM180YG
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2023
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A beautiful bronze panel featuring an artist's concept of life at Camp Worth in the early 1850s is mounted to a boulder of Texas pink granite at the site of Camp Worth, the precursor to the City of Fort Worth. the Daughters of the American Revolution placed the monument here at the northwest corner of W Belknap Street (on the old 1850s military road to Fort Belknap) and N Houston road (near a well-known ford over the Trinity River) in 1921.
DAR Chapter: Mary Isham Keith Chapter
Date Placed: 01/01/1921
Inscription:
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This stone marks the site of Camp Worth, a United States Military Post, named in honor of General William J. Worth, and Commanded by Major Ripley A. Arnold, 1849-1853. The camp protected the frontier against Indians, and was the beginning of the City of Fort Worth.
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[DAR GOLDEN WHEEL MEDALLION]
Erected by Mary Isham Keith Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution, 1921
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