{"id":40255,"count":1,"description":"Fort Towson was a frontier outpost for Frontier Army Quartermasters along the Permanent Indian Frontier located about two miles (3\u00a0km) northeast of the present community of Fort Towson, Oklahoma.\nIt was established in May 1824, under Col. Matthew Arbuckle, on the southern edge of Indian Territory to guard the border with Spanish colonial territory to the south. It was named for Nathaniel Towson, Paymaster General of the Army. Originally called \"Cantonment Towson,\" it was abandoned in 1829, but soon reestablished as \"Camp Phoenix\" to protect the Choctaw Nation. It was renamed Fort Towson in 1831. After the construction of Fort Washita 70 miles (110\u00a0km) to the west in 1842, Fort Towson lost importance. It was garrisoned until 1854, when it was turned over to the use of the Choctaw Indian Agency (a precursor to the Indian reservation).\nThe Confederacy took over the fort at the beginning of the American Civil War, as the Choctaw allied with them. The fort was used as the headquarters of...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/fort-towson\/","name":"Fort Towson","slug":"fort-towson","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/40255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=40255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}