The Punchbowl - Fort Sill, OK
N 34° 41.372 W 098° 24.882
14S E 553610 N 3838769
Sign on top of Hand Hill telling of the Punchbowl and its use.
Waymark Code: WMNGBH
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/11/2015
Views: 6
The Punchbowl is a low area surrounded by hills that had been used for the Prisoner of War villages of the Apache chiefs Loco and Ka-Ah-Tennay. The sign has been used as target practice most likely from the bunker right in front of it.
The sign reads:
THE PUNCHBOWL
Filling most of your field of view at this location is the area known as "The Punchbowl." Surrounded by the low hills of Snow Ridge to the north, Hummel Knoll to the east, and Hand Hill to the south, the area derives its name from the large bowl-like appearance of the local terrain. The Punchbowl area was formed by an oleander loop of Medicine Bluff Creek which eroded a portion of the sandstone formation which composes Snow Ridge. Historically, the Punchbowl area was the location of Ka-ah-tennay's and Loco's Apache prisoner of war villages and the associated Dutch Mission Church in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
County: Comanche
Record Address::
Chatto Road
Fort Sill, OK USA
73503
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Date Erected: unknown
Sponsor (Who put it there): Fort Sill History Museum
Web site if available: Not listed
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