Historical Marker

Site of the Kickapoo Battlefield

Historical marker location:
Frankston, Texas
( about 2 mi. SE of Frankston on FM 19 - just before CR 318)
Marker installed: 1936

Here General Thomas J. Rusk with 200 Texans on October 16, 1838, attacked a band of hostile Indians and allied Mexicans, molestors of frontier settlements, and routed them.