FORT RICHARDSON STATE PARK & HISTORIC SITE 📍 Fort Richardson was officially established in February 1868 in order to provide protection against marauding bands of Comancheand Kiowa Indians on the North Texas frontier and named for Union general Israel Bush (Fighting Dick) Richardson. The unstockaded reservation occupied some 300 acres on Lost Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River, one-half mile south of Jacksboro, in Jack County. Located seventy miles from the Indian Territory and 120 miles f

Let’s ride to Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Accessible by C-TRAN’s route 32, Fort Vancouver is a key part of our region’s history. The Hudson’s Bay Company opened Fort Vancouver in 1825 as a center of the fur trade in the Northwest. Today’s reconstructed fort, and the surrounding spaces, are available for exploration by people of all ages. The historic site is managed by the National Park Service, which helps make sure historic sites like this one are preserved for all Americans and vis