Fort Stockton Historic District

Fort Stockton's historic district gathers the surviving pieces of an Army post and the frontier town that grew beside it at Comanche Springs, the third largest springs in Texas. The fort was first established in 1858, abandoned to Confederate forces, and rebuilt from 1868 until the Army left in 1886. What remains includes three adobe officers' quarters, a limestone guardhouse dated 1868, stone barracks foundations and the old fort cemetery. Town buildings include the Koehler store, the Grey Mule Saloon, the John Young store, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church of 1896, and the Annie Riggs Hotel of 1900, now a museum. The district was recognised because fort and town survive side by side, showing how a frontier settlement developed at a military outpost. A later amendment added the Achterberg House, an adobe house begun in 1901 and enlarged over several decades, as a contributing building.