Cloud Point

The military road past Cloud Point ran from a short-lived post. Lt. Col. Henry Bainbridge established Camp Terrett, also called Fort Terrett, on the North Llano River in eastern Sutton County on February 2, 1852, naming it for Lt. John Terrett, killed at Monterrey in 1846. It was meant to protect the settlements along the San Antonio Road from Comanche raids, but federal troops abandoned it on February 26, 1854. The state placed a marker at the site in 1936, twenty-six miles from Junction off U.S. Highway 290, and the old fort buildings became headquarters of the Noel ranch.

What the plaque says

Cloud Point A landmark for many years for soldiers and others who journeyed along the roads that traversed this terrain, Cloud Point is the name given to the cliff overlooking the Llano River valley and the valley of Johnson Fork Creek. The geographic feature was named for the family of William Johnston Cloud, a Civil War veteran, who purchased property in this part of Kimble County and located his home near this site. Early roads that passed by Cloud Point included the Upper Presidio Road, from Kerrville to Fort McKavett; the Military Road from Fort Terrett to San Antonio; and the transcontinental Old Spanish Trail. No longer on the main route since the 1970s, Cloud Point remains a local point of interest. (2001)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kimble County Historical Museum — 4.9 mi
  A free county museum in Junction, the town at the meeting of the North and South Llano, with the papers, photographs and tools of a ranching county.
• Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve — 22 mi
  A limestone cave on the James River where about four million Mexican free-tailed bats raise their young each summer, kept open to visitors by a family's gift.
• Fort McKavett State Historic Site — 34 mi
  The post Sherman called the prettiest in Texas, home to soldiers of all four Buffalo Soldier regiments and then to a town that lived in its buildings until 1973.

More markers nearby

• Miller-Browning Colony — steps away
• The Oliver Pecan — 2.2 mi
• Little Mexico (Northeast Junction) — 3.1 mi
• Teacup Mountain — 3.6 mi