Plaque for the Fort Griffin Civil Jail in the Fort Griffin townsite, near the U.S. Army's frontier post of Fort Griffin in Shackelford County, Texas

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Called "The Flat," by the townspeople and cattle ranchers who lived there, the town was an important watering and supply point along the so-called "Western Cattle Trail" up to Dodge City, Kansas. The townsite is now the property of ranchers Cliff and Lynne Teinert. Cliff Teinert restored or replicated most of the settlement's buildings.
Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).
Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.