Adobe Walls
Post Office Est.: 1845
Post Office Closed:
High Population: Unknown
Low Population: 0
Year Founded: 1843
Founder: Bent, St. Vrain and Company
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County: Hutchinson
Adobe Walls was the name given several trading posts and later a ranching community located seventeen miles northeast of Stinnett and just north of the Canadian River in what is now northeastern Hutchinson County. The first trading post in the area seems to have been established in early 1843 by representatives of the trading firm of Bent, St. Vrain and Company, which hoped to trade with the Comanches and Kiowas. These Indians avoided Bent's Fort, the company's main headquarters on the upper Arkansas River near La Junta, Colorado, because enemies, the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, lived in the area. The new satellite post was situated on a stream that became known as Bent's (now Bent) Creek. Company traders worked originally from tepees and later from log structures. Probably no real fort was built on the site before 1846. Sometime after September 1845 William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain, chief partners in the firm, arrived with Mexican adobe makers to replace the log establishment with Fort Adobe, a structure eighty feet square, with nine-foot walls and only one entrance.
Read more about Adobe Walls at the Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical Association)
Read more about Adobe Walls at the Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical Association)
Hutchinson County Historical Markers
Built 1899 with materials hauled at great peril across the Canadian - ....
The founder of Borger, Missouri-born Asa P. ("Ace") Borger (1888-....
Fifteen miles to the site of the BATTLE OF ADOBE WALLS Fought on Novem....
Was fought here November 25, 1864, when Colonel Christopher (Kit) Cars....
Where Was Adobe Walls, Texas ?
Loaction: 17 miles NE of Stinnett
Closest Town: Stinnett
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