Historical Marker

Site of Fort Croghan

Historical marker location:

703 SH 29, Burnet, Texas

( in front of Fort Croghan Museum)

Established by Lieut. C. H. Tyler, United States Second Dragoons, by order of the War Department, March 18, 1849, as a protection to frontier settlers against hostile Indians. Abandoned in December, 1853 as the settlements had extended farther west.