It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Presidio County, Texas on June 18, 1973.

[2] Benjamin Leaton was a trader, freight hauler along the Chihuahua Trail, and a bounty hunter paid by various local governments in Mexico for each scalp taken from an indigenous person.

[4] Leaton died in 1851,[5] and his widow married Edward Hall who continued operating the freight business from the fort.

Hall became financially indebted to Leaton's scalp hunting partner John Burgess.

[6] The fort was purchased by Marfa State Bank and a private citizen in the 1930s and donated to Presidio County.

[7] Fort Leaton was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Presidio County, Texas on June 18, 1973.

[8] Fort Leaton State Historic Site is on Farm to Market Road 170, 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Presidio, Texas.