Camp Hudson Traditional Cache
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A quick park & grab, with plenty of nearby parking. Cache is a
bison container with log only, bring your own pen.
Cache is located on Hwy 163 between Ozona and Comstock. The road is
curvy and a really pretty drive, but when it has rained, the road
does flood and if there has been a lot of rain it often gets
closed. We have placed several caches along this road to help make
it worth the trip. While hiding this cache a DPS Officer stopped by
and asked what we were doing so I got to explain what Geocaching
is, he had never heard of it before. After I explained and let him
read the insert sheet from the cache, he told us to have a good
time and left.
CAMP HUDSON. Camp Hudson, also called Fort Hudson, was located on
San Pedro Creek, a tributary of the Devils River, twenty-one miles
north of Comstock in central Val Verde County. It was established
on June 7, 1857, in what was then Kinney County and named for Lt.
Walter W. Hudson, who died in April 1850 of injuries he received in
an Indian fight. The camp was one of several posts built between
San Antonio and El Paso to protect travelers on the so-called
Chihuahua Trail. A local post office was opened in 1857. The post
was built along an elevated but isolated section of the creek, and
few travelers or settlers came by in the early years. Zenas R.
Bliss, who was stationed at Camp Hudson for two years, reported
seeing only four or five people during that time who were not
related to the army. The walls of the buildings at Camp Hudson were
constructed of a mixture of gravel and lime. The process was slow,
but it made the buildings cool in summer and warm in winter. In
1859 one of the experimental camel caravans from Camp Verde passed
through Camp Hudson. The troops left on March 17, 1861, for service
in the Civil War. In 1866 the post office closed. In late October
1867 a stage from Camp Hudson to Fort Stockton was ambushed by
Indians, and two military escorts were killed. In November,
immediately after the stage attack, companies D and G of the Ninth
Cavalry were ordered to Camp Hudson. By April 1868 other troops had
returned to the area. In April 1871 Camp Hudson was reorganized
with three commissioned officers and sixty enlisted men. In March
1876 Lt. Col. George Pearson Buell came to Camp Hudson from Fort
Concho with two companies of cavalry. Under his leadership, the
post was to be used as a summer camp to protect newly arrived
settlers. The troops at Camp Hudson fought with Indians on several
occasions and sometimes followed them into Mexico. In April 1876
Lt. Louis Henry Orleman was sent to Camp Hudson to take command of
Company B of the Tenth Cavalry. In January 1877, however, Camp
Hudson was permanently closed because the threat of Indian attacks
no longer existed. In 1936 The Texas Historical Commission placed a
centennial marker at the site of Camp Hudson. By the 1980s no
buildings stood on the private property where the camp was once
situated.
This cache was placed by a member of the PBCA:
Permian Basin Cachers Association
Caching like Crazy, simply because we can!
Additional Hints
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