Every day at the Post Bakery, fresh bread was made for the mess halls and for sale at the Post Commissary. At 3 a.m. each morning soldiers would begin baking bread to feed the hundreds of troops who would report to the mess hall at 6 a.m., noon, and 5 p.m.

Fort Hancock was in operation from 1895 to 1974.

Marker is at the intersection of Kearney Road and Jackson Street, on the left when traveling north on Kearney Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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