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Revitalizing ‘the most important fort in North Texas’
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A large portion of the designated $50,000 from the Young County Hotel Occupancy Tax funds will go towards the renovations and restorations of the museum at Fort Belknap. Leaders hope to secure new cabinets and electrical work for the museum with the funds. (Leader photo by Nathan Lawson)
An updated museum, electrical and restrooms, and a healthier grape arbor are coming Fort Belknap’s way starting as soon as this year.
Young County Commissioner’s Court designated $40,000 from the county’s Hotel Occupancy Tax funds for renovations and restoration projects. Fort Belknap Director Jim Hammond and Young County Commissioner Pct. 1 Mike Sipes met with the Leader on Tuesday to discuss plans for the fort.
“The vision of Fort Belknap is to make it the most important historical fort on the Texas Forts Trail in North Texas,” Sipes said.
“Fort Belknap with its story, is the most important fort in North Texas,” Hammond added. “The issue we have is when people are traveling doing sightseeing and stuff like that, you have destination stops, their point is to go there, and then we have pass through stops, these stops are just on their way to where they are going to. Fort Belknap currently is a pass through stop, what we’re doing is we are making it a destination stop.”
For the rest of the story see the Saturday, March 2 edition of The Graham Leader.
