Site of Coughlin's Stage Stand

The stand on the Southern Overland route is remembered as Camp Charlotte, a post on the Middle Concho River where the Butterfield Overland and El Paso mail routes met, established in April 1858. A stockade 115 by 190 feet enclosed some of the buildings, while the officers' quarters and guardhouse stood outside it. By the middle 1870s only infantry held the post, and they found the area hard to police against raiding. A settlement grew around the station, and William Garrison opened a post office there in 1885 that ran until 1899. The site is on private land.

What the plaque says

Site of Coughlin's Stage Stand On the Southern Overland route, St. Louis to San Francisco, 1858-1861. Later known as Camp Charlotte. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

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