Ever wonder what it was like to live in a fort on the Texas frontier? Well you can find out by studying how the settlers lived.

You can also come to the Fort on Fort Croghan Day and see for yourself how the people lived.

The fort was first called McCulloch's Station in honor of its commander Henry Eustace McCulloch (1816-1895). Henry McCulloch was a Texas Ranger and he and his men were stationed at a place call Hamilton Creek when in 1849 the United States Government declared the site a federal fort. Lieutenant C.H. Tyler was the commander of Company A of the Second Dragoons. The Second Dragoons came to live at the fort.

Fort Croghan was the third of the first four forts established by the United States government in the first quarter of 1849 to protect settlements from hostile Indians. Ultimately there was a chain of Forts extending from Fort Worth in North Texas to Fort Inge near present Uvalde.

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The buildings on the fort included a hospital, officers quarters, enlisted men's huts, a commissary (store), adjutant's (assistant) office, a bakery, and a horse and mule lot with storage buildings.

All the buildings were erected by soldiers. This drawing is a sketch done by Assistant Surgeon, Wylie Crawford in about 1850.

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In 1852 the Texas Legislature authorized the creation of Burnet County, named in honor of David G. Burnet, first President of the Republic of Texas. As the town grew, the U. S. Government felt that it could hold it's own against the dangers of the frontier and so the fort was abandoned in 1853.

The soldiers stationed at the fort were moved to other forts along the Texas frontier.