Site of Camp San Saba

The community that grew up here took its name from the camp. Meusebach had met a council of Comanches near the townsite in 1847, and Rangers were posted in the area in the mid-1850s. Camp San Saba was the principal settlement in McCulloch County until Brady became the county seat in 1876, the year its own post office opened. By 1884 it had three churches, a district school, three stores and 250 people shipping wool and livestock. When the railroad made Brady the shipping point in 1904, Camp San Saba began a long decline.

What the plaque says

Site of Camp San Saba Here was stationed, 1862-1864, Captain W. G. O'Brien's Company of mounted volunteers a unit of the frontier regiment organized to protect the frontier against Indians. The regiment in 1864 became the Forty-sixth Texas Cavalry in the Confederate Army.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Mason — 17 mi
  A reconstructed officers' quarters on Post Oak Hill above Mason, standing where the army's stone fort was taken apart by the town that grew up below it.

More markers nearby

• Voca Waterwheel Mill — 3.0 mi
• Site of Old Park Named for Comanche Chief Katemcy — 5.9 mi
• Peter's Prairie School — 7.2 mi
• Wagram Cemetery — 10 mi