Here Milton Faver

The headquarters at Cibolo was a one-story adobe with a flat roof of cottonwood poles, inside walls twenty feet high and three to four feet thick, topped with broken bottles to stop climbers, with loopholes for rifles and round towers at the north and south corners. At Cienega Faver built an eighty-nine-foot stockade with towers at two corners. La Morita, the sheep ranch, was left unfortified and later lost lives in an Apache raid. After the Civil War, Fort Davis lent Cibolo a cannon and stationed troops there.

What the plaque says

Here Milton Faver established in the fifties the first Anglo-American owned ranch in the Big Bend. Three quadrangular adobe fortresses situated at big springs Cibolo, Cienaga and La Morita served as a defense against hostile Apaches. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Leaton State Historic Site — 19 mi
  The adobe trading post on the Rio Grande below Presidio, where digging has rewritten the stories told about it and a self-guided walk leads through its rebuilt rooms.

More markers nearby

• Brooks Cemetery — 0.3 mi
• Milton Faver Ranches — 5.0 mi
• Milton Faver — 5.6 mi
• Mission San Francisco de los Julimes — 16 mi