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Taken 24-Feb-13
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Keywords:Texas Historical Marker, Limestone County Texas Historical Marker, Fort Parker
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Dimensions4288 x 2848
Original file size6.59 MB
Image typeJPEG
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Date taken24-Feb-13 11:19
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Camera makeNIKON CORPORATION
Camera modelNIKON D90
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ISO speedISO 400
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Fort Parker

Fort Parker

Groesbeck br/Limestone County, Texas br/31 33.870' N 96 32.917' W br/br/Text: Built 1834 for protection from Indians. Named for leaders who bought first Predestinarian Baptist church body to Texas: Elder Daniel Parker; his father, Elder John; brothers Jas. W., Benjamin, Silas, John. Also here were Kellogg, Frost, Nixon, Duty and Plummer families on May 18, 1836, raiding Comanches killed Benjamin, John and Silas Parker, Samuel and Robert Frost and others; captured Elizabeth Kellogg, Rachel Plummer and son James, and Sila's children, John and Cynthia Ann in captivity, Cynthia Ann married Chief Peta Nacona; her son, Quanah, was last Comanche Chief. With her baby, Prairie Flower, in 1860 she was captured by Texas Rangers. She, the baby and Quanah are buried at Fort Sill.