Site of Fort Lincoln

Fort Lincoln was one of eight posts in the first federal line across Texas, from Eagle Pass to Coffee's Bend on the Red River. Two companies of the Eighth Infantry served under Maj. James Longstreet, with Lt. Richard Irving Dodge, later the namesake of Dodge City, Kansas, as his second. They guarded settlers and freight on the Woll Road to Fort Duncan, in log, pole and thatch buildings and later local gray limestone. After the 1852 abandonment Rangers used the site, and a buyer moved the barracks to D'Hanis. The land is private and nothing remains.

What the plaque says

Site of Fort Lincoln Established by the United States Army July 7, 1849 as a link in a chain of posts extending from the Rio Grande to Red River. Named in honor of Captain George Lincoln who fell at Buena Vista February 23, 1847. Abandoned July 20, 1852 after the frontier line had advanced further westward. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Landmark Inn State Historic Site — 25 mi
  A store and stage stop at the Medina River ford in Henri Castro's Alsatian town, with a mill race under the ground and rooms you can still rent for the night.
• Garner State Park — 32 mi
  The Frio River park that Uvalde County built with the Civilian Conservation Corps and named for its own vice president, where people have danced on the stone pavilion every summer since the 1940s.

More markers nearby

• D'Hanis — 2.1 mi
• Town of D'Hanis — 2.8 mi
• Southern Pacific Depot of Hondo — 7.9 mi
• Hondo — 8.6 mi