Second Adobe Walls Battle Site

 battlefield, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, ghost town, historic landmark

Adobe Walls was established in 1843 as a trading post for buffalo hunters and later became a ranching community. In the November of 1864 First Battle of Adobe Walls, native Americans successfully repelled attacking troops led by Kit Carson. Ten years later, on June 27, 1874, known as the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, civilians at the Adobe Walls trading post successfully repelled an attack by native Americans. The second battle led to a military campaign which resulted in the relocation of native Americans to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.

Adobe Walls was never a large community. It was mostly populated with ranchers, their families, and ranch employees. The post office closed in 1921, and the population from 1940 to 1970 was listed in the Texas Almanac as 15 people.

This six-acre tract contains the remains of the 1874 trading post.

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