The Fort Mason-Camp Cooper Military Road lay 1 mile east and served as the route for U.S. 2nd Cavalry troops and supplies moving from San Antonio to Fort Mason, about 100 miles south of here, and to Camp Cooper, about 65 miles north, during the campaigns of 1851-1861 against Plains Indians. Great military figures in American history traveled this road, including Robert E. Lee, later a commanding general, C.S.A., and George T. Thomas, known as the Rock of Chickamauga.