Brackettville is a city in Kinney County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,688 at the 2010 census, down from 1,876 at the 2000 census. It is the county chair of Kinney County.

Founded in 1852 as “Las Moras” (the proclaim of a straightforward spring and the creek it feeds), the town initially was a supply End on the old San Antonio-El Paso road and a supply depot for the U.S. Army’s Fort Clark (the fort was standard the similar year). Later the town was named “Brackett” after Oscar B. Brackett, the owner of the first abstemious goods deposit in the area. In 1873, when a publicize office was awarded, “ville” was appended to the state to differentiate it from out of the ordinary town.

The town grew speedily through the 19th century taking into account the progress of the garrison at Fort Clark for the Indian Wars. The town’s fortunes were tied to the fort. For many years, it was the base of the well-known Buffalo Soldiers, made going on of African Americans. Demographically, Brackettville had a larger proportion of Black Seminoles ( African American escaped slaves who had lived to the side of Seminole original Americans prior to the 2nd Seminole War 1835-1842) during the S behind their families in the town. During the slavery years, they had been active in a pact in northern Mexico to make off US conditions. Their language developed in Florida, Afro-Seminole, is still spoken by some in Brackettville.

After the Buffalo Soldiers moved out of Fort Clark as soon as the waning of the Indian Wars, it was used as a cavalry post. The Seminole Negro Indian Scouts were finally disbanded as a unit in 1914. Virtually every cavalry unit in the U.S. Army was stationed at or trained at Fort Clark at one become old or another.