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Photo: National Park Service Digital Image Archives, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
On the north side of town. The fort was constructed in 1854 to protect the stagecoach service on the newly opened San Antonio-El Paso road from Apache and Comanche attacks.
Fort Davis National Historic Site is a United States national historic site located in the unincorporated community of Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County, Texas. Located within the Davis Mountains of West Texas, the historic site was established in 1961 to protect one of the best remaining examples of a United States Army fort in the southwestern United States.
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