Camp Colorado Replica

The Camp Colorado Replica, in Coleman, Texas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.[1] It is located in Coleman City Park, at 1700 N Neches in Coleman.[2]

Camp Colorado Replica
LocationColeman City Park, 1700 N. Neches, Coleman, Texas
Coordinates31°50′51″N 99°25′33″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1936
MPSMonuments and Buildings of the Texas Centennial MPS
NRHP reference No.100002345[1]
Added to NRHPApril 19, 2018

It was built with assistance of a $3,600 grant from the Texas Centennial Commission, plus Works Progress Administration-funded labor.[3][4]

Around the year 1855, the original Camp Colorado was located near the present-day community of Ebony, Texas in Mills County, but would be relocated to a site near Mulewater Creek in Coleman County only a year later in 1856. It functioned as part of a series of other military stations meant to function as a bulwark between settlements to the East and hostile Native American tribes. With the outbreak of the Civil War, all of the troops stationed at the camp joined the Confederate Army, except for one. Due to this mass exodus of soldiers, Camp Colorado was reoccupied by Texas Rangers until the end of the Civil War, whereupon it would be abandoned once more. Camp Colorado would remain unoccupied until fourteen years later, when an Englishman by the name of H.H. Sackett bought the land and used the old headquarters as his home.[5][6][7]

References
  1. "Weekly list". April 27, 2018. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  2. Gregory Smith (December 15, 2017). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Camp Colorado Replica (SBR draft)" (PDF). Texas Historical Commission. Retrieved May 16, 2018. With 20 photos from 2017.
  3. "Camp Colorado Administration Building Replica - Coleman TX". April 23, 2015. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  4. Beatrice Grady Gay (June 12, 2010). "Handbook of Texas Online: Camp Colorado". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  5. Gay, Beatrice Grady. "Camp Colorado". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  6. "Camp Colorado, Texas". Texas Escapes. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  7. Wooster, Robert. "U.S. Army on the Texas Frontier". Texas Beyond History. Retrieved October 9, 2020.


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