First Military Road

Historical marker location:

Talihina, Oklahoma

( Marker is on Talimena National Scenic Byway (Scenic Highway 1) 1 mile east of U.S. 271, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1959

Here, between 1874 and 1890, supply wagons, a daily stagecoach and the US 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.