Military Road Crossing
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Team Min Dawg
N 36° 34.742 W 099° 35.490
14S E 447081 N 4048337
This historic marker is located northwest of Fort Supply, OK.
Waymark Code: WM4XRW
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/11/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member GEO*Trailblazer 1
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The historic marker reads as follows:

MILITARY ROAD CROSSING
Here, between 1874 and 1890, supply wagons, a daily stage coach and the U. S. Mail moved over this earliest known trail from Dodge City, Kansas to Fort Elliott, Texas. The fort first known as Cantonment on Sweetwater" was established after the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne attack on Adobe Walls in June of 1874.

For more info on Cantonment on Sweetwater: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobeetie
County: Woodward

Record Address::
Fort Supply, OK United States Of America

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Sponsor (Who put it there): Oklahoma Historical Society

Date Erected: Not listed
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