{"nrhp_refnum":"66000816","name":"Fort Richardson","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Jacksboro on U.S. 281","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jacksboro","county":"Jack County","state":"TX","lat":33.20815794250004,"lon":-98.16506951862004,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1963-11-27","areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fort Richardson is a former U.S. Army frontier post on the south edge of Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas, begun in 1867. Only a few of its original forty-plus buildings survive, within a larger state park.","why_significant":"It was the northernmost of the chain of Texas forts and protected the North Texas frontier during the Kiowa-Comanche conflicts after the Civil War. Troops from the fort took part in the Red River War of 1874-75. The 1871 trial of Kiowa leaders Satanta and Big Tree, held in nearby Jacksboro, was the first trial of Indians in a non-military court.","narrative":"Fort Richardson, on the south edge of Jacksboro, Texas, was founded in 1867 as the northernmost post in the state's chain of frontier forts. It replaced Fort Belknap and guarded the North Texas frontier during the Kiowa-Comanche conflicts after the Civil War. Of more than forty original buildings, only a handful remain: the sandstone hospital, an officers' quarters, the post bakery and the stone powder magazine, among others. Restoration by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Division has returned the hospital porch and repointed its rubble stonework, and the hospital now serves as a museum. The fort's history includes the 1871 pursuit of the raiders behind the Warren wagon train massacre, led by Colonel Ranald Mackenzie, and the Jacksboro trial of Satanta and Big Tree. Troops from the post joined the Red River War of 1874-75. The fort was abandoned in 1878, after the tribes were confined to Oklahoma reservations.","period_of_significance":"1867","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Surviving buildings are under restoration by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Division; the hospital is used as a museum and the park is open to the public year-round. Condition is listed as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.7533-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/44/9709/40970944/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/66000816_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000816/3924e034e1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000816/3924e034e1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"NetherlandishYankee (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Richardson.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">NetherlandishYankee (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Richardson.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970944","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Richardson_(Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5471915"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/jack-county/fort-richardson-66000816/"}