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194 Park Road 28
Mexia TX 76667
254/562-5751
fortparker@glade.net
History: Fort Parker State Park includes 1458.8 acres (758.8 land acres and a
700-acre lake); between Mexia and Groesbeck, in Limestone County. It was opened
to the public in 1941.
Fort Parker State Park was created in 1935 on land donated by the City of Mexia
and three local landowners. The Civilian Conservation Corps constructed all the
recreational facilities in the late 1930s, and built a dam across the Navasota
River in 1939, creating Fort Parker Lake.
The park was named for Fort Parker, a nearby historic settlement established in
1833, and the site of the well-known Comanche Indian raid in May 1836, during
which Cynthia Ann Parker was captured. During captivity, Cynthia Ann became the
mother of the last great Comanche chief, Quanah Parker. The old fort was
reconstructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps as a 1936 centennial project.
See Old Fort Parker. |
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