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Fort Miller (originally, Camp Barbour then Camp Miller) is a former fort on the south bank of the San Joaquin River in what is now Fresno County, California, United States. It lay at an elevation of 561 feet (171 m).[1] The site is now under Millerton Lake, formed by the Friant Dam in 1944. It is registered as California Historical Landmark #584.[2]
Fort Miller
Camp Barbour, Camp Miller | |
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Former settlement | |
 Fort Miller Hospital, c.1935 | |
  Fort Miller Location in California | |
| Coordinates: 37°00′55″N 119°39′34″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Madera County |
| Fort Miller | 1852 |
| Elevation | 561 ft (171 m) |
California Historical Landmark | |
| Reference no. | 584 |
Some 150 miles upriver from Stockton, it was originally a California Militia post named Camp Barbour during the Mariposa War, became a U. S. Army post named Camp Miller in 1851, and Fort Miller in 1852, named after Major Albert S. Miller.[3][4] The Army abandoned the post on December 1, 1866. The former settlement of Rootville, later called Millerton, grew up west of the fort on the Stockton - Los Angeles Road in what was then Mariposa County, Tulare County and then Fresno County.[1][5]
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fort Miller, California
- "Fort Miller". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
- "Pioneer Days in Fresno County". The Fresno Bee The Republican. October 3, 1937. p. 48. Retrieved November 17, 2014 – via Newspapers.com.
- Frazer, Robert Walter. 1965. Forts of the West: Military Forts and Presidios, and Posts Commonly Called Forts West of the Mississippi River to 1898. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 26–27.
- Colonel Herbert M. Hart, USMC (retired), Historic California Posts: Fort Miller (including Camp Barbour, Camp Miller) from Pioneer Forts of the Far West, published in 1965, The California State Military Museum
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