Historical Marker
Enchanted Rock
Historical marker location:
Fredericksburg, Texas
( at the gazebo at entrance to Nature Trail system in Enchanted Rock State Park; from Fredericksburg, take RR 965 north 20 miles)
Marker installed: 1936
From its summit, in the fall of 1841, Captain John C. Hays, while surrounded by comanche Indians who cut him off from his ranging company, repulsed the whole band and inflicted upon them such heavy losses that they fled.