Fort Miller, California facts for kids
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Fort Miller
Camp Barbour, Camp Miller
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Former settlement
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Fort Miller Hospital, c.1935
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 Fort Miller
Location in California
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| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Madera County |
| Fort Miller | 1852 |
| Elevation | 561 ft (171 m) |
| Reference #: | 584 |
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). The site is now under Millerton Lake, formed by the Friant Dam in 1944. It is registered as California Historical Landmark #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. 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.
