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Fort Belknap

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Fort Belknap, established in 1850 two miles southwest, was the largest military post in northern Texas until the Civil War, the first county seat of Young County, and a station on the Southern Overland Mail Line connecting St. Louis and San Francisco from 1858 to 1861.
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