Historical Marker Program

Military Road Crossing

Woodward County
Location: on US-270, one mile west of Fort Supply
Coordinates: 36.578908, -99.591265
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Daughters of the American Revolution and the Oklahoma Historical Society
Topics: Indian and Frontier Trade; Military; Social/Cultural; Territorial Period, 1861–190; Transportation

Here, between 1874 and 1890, supply wagons, a daily stagecoach, and the US mail moved over this earliest known trail from Dodge City, Kansas to Fort Elliott, Texas. Fort Elliot, first known as “Cantonment on the Sweetwater” was established in the Texas Panhandle after the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne attack on Adobe Walls in June 1874.

Note: This site originally featured a small granite marker in addition to the aluminum marker. The granite marker no longer exists.