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FORT CONCHO
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Construction
on this remote outpost started in 1867. The fort was
abandoned
in 1889 and the buildings were turned into private
residences.
Today, the ghosts of its former occupants are
still struggling
to make a go of it. The footsteps of invisible
soldiers
are heard in the old barracks, and a shadowy apparition
has been
seen walking there. Lights play games in the headquarters
and courtmartial
room. The presence of the camp's surgeon, Captain
William
Notson, is sensed in the primitive post hospital. The museum
library,
formerly Officer's Quarters No. 7, is haunted by the luminescent
spirits
of sev eral transients who were murdered in the building in the
1890s.
One library staff member claims the ghosts locked her out
several
times by latching the heavy nineteenth-century lock.
LOCATION
San
Angelo is in south-central Texas, southwest of Abillene, at the
junction
of U.S. Highways 87 and 277. Fort Concho is southeast of
town on
East Avenue D. Fort Concho Preservation and Museum,
San Angelo,
TX 76903. Phone: 915-657-4441.
