Historical Marker
Sherman House
Historical marker location:
422 Hamilton Road, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
( Marker is on Hamilton Road, 0.1 miles west of Chickasha Road, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1956
Constructed of native stone by members of the 10th Cavalry, this structure was home to General William Tecumseh Sherman when he conducted a tour of frontier army posts in the early 1870s. He narrowly escaped assassination by Kiowa warriors on the porch in May 1871.
The Oklahoma City bombing, which occurred on April 19, 1995, was one of the deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in United States history. The bombing killed 168 people and injured more than 500 others.