Fort Arbuckle

Fort Arbuckle is an Oklahoma historical marker in Garvin County.

Garvin County · on OK-7 in Hoover (about seven miles west of Davis) · location approximate

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Captain Randolph Marcy established Fort Arbuckle in April 1851. From this major army post, Marcy and George B. McClellan, later the commander in chief of the Army of the Potomac, set out to explore the source of the Red River in 1852. The post was abandoned to Confederate forces in May 1861. After being garrisoned by US troops after the Civil War, Fort Arbuckle was abandoned in 1870. The Initial Point for land surveys is one mile south at the intersection of Indian Meridian and Baseline.

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