Historical Marker
Site of Camp Verde
Historical marker location:
Camp Verde Road, Kerrville, Texas
( From Kerrville take SH 173 S approximately 13 miles to Camp Verde. Marker is on farm road .5 miles W of Camp Verde Store.)
Marker installed: 1936
Established as a frontier post by the United States Army, July 8, 1855; headquarters in 1856 for 40 camels, sent by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, to be used in a system of overland communication with the west, which proved impracticable. Surrendered to the Confederate government in 1861; reoccupied in 1865 by the United States Army; abandoned April 1, 1869.