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Fort Tuminson LbNA #76033

Owner:Baby Bear
Plant date:Apr 24, 2022
Location: SW Williamson County Regional Park
City:Leander
County:Williamson
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Found by: aramcobrat
Last found:Jan 28, 2024
Status:FFF
Last edited:Apr 26, 2022
Difficulty: Easy
Distance to Letterbox: 1/4 mile round trip

***** Park of the Other Forts of Texas Series *****

Tumlinson Fort, also known as the Tumlinson blockhouse, was on the headwaters of Brushy Creek in what is now Williamson County. It was established by John J. Tumlinson, Jr., and his company of Texas Rangers. Following his commission as a captain in the Rangers by the provisional government of Texas in 1835, he took his company of sixty men to what is now Williamson County. The government had charged Tumlinson's company with the patrolling and protecting of Anglo-American settlements in the area. Tumlinson's men built a small fort in 1836 on the headwaters of Brushy Creek. The Tumlinson blockhouse was the first Anglo-American post in Williamson County. Upon hearing the news that Antonio López de Santa Anna had invaded, the company abandoned the post to go fight the Mexican army. In 1837, Noah Smithwick, one of the original Rangers, traveled by the post on a scouting mission and discovered that it had been burned by Indians. The box is located in SW Williamson County Regional Park, which is close to the area of the fort.

Directions:
From Hwy 183 in Leader, take FM2243 east to FM175. Turn right and go to Park on the left. Turn left on Perry Mayfield Blvd and go to turning circle. Circle to far side and keep going. Just past Splash Pad turn on right, and at sharp right turn in road, turn left into parking area and park.

To the Letterbox:
Go to left under archway for Jim Rodgers Trail. Go to Junction. Go right and count 8 steps. Go right off trail to the tree behind the cedar bush. Box at front base under a rock.

Hike length: 0.5 miles