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| Keywords: Replica of Fort Inglish in Bonham, Texas LCCN2015630033.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes The original was a frequent refuge for settlers on the western edge of the Red River frontier It was built in the summer of 1837 by Bailey Inglish in the form of a single blockhouse sixteen feet square and topped by an overhanging story twenty-four feet square probably surrounded by a log stockade Fort Inglish was on grounds now occupied by a Veterans Administration center in downtown Bonham Although it was private Fort Inglish played a role in several official campaigns against the Indians by the Army of the Republic of Texas After the removal of the Indian threat to white settlement in Northeast Texas in the early 1840s however Fort Inglish fell into disrepair and was eventually dismantled ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015630033 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/29700/29796a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 29796 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 29796 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||