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Fort Davis is one of the best surviving examples of an Indian Wars frontier military post in the Southwest. From 1854 to 1891, it was strategically located to protect emigrants, mail coaches, and freight wagons on the Trans-Pecos portion of the San Antonio-El Paso Road and on the Chihuahua Trail. Summer temperatures average a high of 95 and low of 65. Winter temperatures average a high of 60 and a low of 20. Wind is very common and heavy rainfall is very sporadic.
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Fort Davis, Texas · United States
