Historical Marker

Site of Anderson's Fort or Soldier's Mound

Historical marker location:
Spur, Texas
( From Spur, take Highway 70 north, about 6 miles)
Marker installed: 1936

Here behind extensive breastworks Major Thomas M. Anderson, Tenth U. S. Infantry, maintained a supply camp for the Cavalry under General Ranald S. Mackenzie, Fourth U.S. Cavalry, who in 1874-1875 forced the Indians of the region onto reservations and opened the plains to white settlement.