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Camp
ElizabethSterling
County
US 87
9 Miles NW of present-day Sterling
City |
In
the early 1850s, the site was established as a Texas Rangers camp. Fort
Concho assumed ownership in the mid 1870s as Indian attacks increased. Camp
Elizabeth was used as an outpost hospital facility.
The camp was described
as a rock corral for horses,
officers quarters and tents for the enlisted men. A farrier had space to work
and between the camp and the river, the land was used to break horses
and / or teach horsemanship.
The camp was abandoned in 1886 and although
everything was left in place for a possible reactivation, local ranchers demolished
the place to deter its use by dubious individuals who hung out there. The historical
marker designated the presumed site. |
Site of Camp
Elizabeth Thought
to have been established 1853.
Used as an outpost hospital of Fort
Concho 1874 - 1886. | |
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