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16385 1873 Infantry Barracks Brackettville, 367 Fort Clark Road FORT CLARK BY 1873 HAD GROWN TO REGIMENTAL SIZE, COMPELLING CONSTRUCTION OF SIX SINGLE-STORY INFANTRY BARRACKS AND THREE TWO-STORY CAVALRY BARRACKS ... 18182 1886 Kitchen/Mess Hall 2-3 Mackenzie Rd The earliest mess arrangements for soldiers at Fort Clark were around open fires along Las Moras Creek near the spring. This building is one of Fort ... 16260 2nd Cavalry Division at Fort Clark 1 McClernand Rd. In response to the U.S. experience during World War I, the army organized the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Divisions in 1921. However, the 2nd Cavalry Division ... 17 8 Medallions on Officers' Row Quarters Brackettville --

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12001 Adjutant's Quarters (Quarters # 20) 20 Colony Row, Fort Clark Springs Erected during the 1873-1875 expansion of Fort Clark to accommodate and support an entire regiment, this structure differs from other quarters on ... 15793 Army Service Club 154 Fort Clark Road Occupying the site of Fort Clark’s first guardhouse, this 1938 structure served as a morale and welfare facility until 1944, when the U.S. Army closed ...

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16259 Carver School Grounds Brackettville, 302 W. Spring St. When Fort Clark’s Seminole-Negro Indian Scout Detachment was disbanded by the U.S. Army on September 30, 1914, the Seminoles were required to relocate ... 761 Catholic Church S. Sweeney St., E side between W. El Paso and James streets. W of St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church. (RTHL medallion) 1001 Commanding Officer's Quarters No. 29 colony row, Ft. Clark Springs, Brackettville Fort Clark was established as a U.S. Army garrison in June 1852. Nine structures designed by U.S. Army engineers were built in 1873-1874 to house ...

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1243 Dolores Townsite at a rest area off of Highway 90 and 8-9 miles west of Brackettville Only settlement founded in John Charles Beales' ill-fated Rio Grande colony of 1834-1836. Beales (1804-1878) -- empresario of 70,000,000 acres in ...

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12735 Filippone Building James and Riordan streets (Kinney County Heritage Museum). Italian stonemasons Giovanni B. Filippone (1845-1917) and Giovanni Cassinelli purchased property here in 1883-85 and in 1885 built the six-sided ... 1975 Fort Clark Inside Ft. Clark: fronts Bowie Street just east of Intersection of Bowie and Main Streets, near entrance (off Highway 90), Brackettville A strategic installation in the U.S. Army's line of forts along the military road stretching from San Antonio to El Paso, Fort Clark was established ... 1976 Fort Clark Guardhouse Fort Clark Springs, Old Guardhouse Museum, NE corner of McClernand Dr. and Baylor St. Established in 1852, Fort Clark was manned by varying troop strengths over the years. This guardhouse was built in the 1870s during a period of fort ... 24178 Fort Clark Post Headquarters Building marker pending marker pending 12002 Fort Clark Post Theater SW corner of Fort Clark Rd. and Patton Rd., Fort Clark Springs Constructed in 1932, this building replaced an earlier Fort Clark Post Hall that served as a church, courtroom, theater, and recreational center. ... 2079 Fort Clark, U.S.A. Highway 334 east, in front of Courthouse, Brackettville 1852-1946 Founded June, 1852. Guarded California road, rebuffed Indians, outlaws. Named for Maj. J. B. Clark, killed in Mexican War. Companies of ...

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18148 John Horse Travis Road at Cam Hacinda Born in Spanish Florida of a black mother and Seminole father in 1812, John Horse (also known as Juan Caballo, Juan Cavallo, or Gopher John) was ...

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2895 Kinney County not located/missing Formed from Bexar County. Created January 28, 1850. Recreated February 2, 1856. Organized December 3, 1869. Named in honor of Henry L. Kinney 1813-1861. ... 13189 Kinney County Courthouse Brackettville, 501 N. Ann Street Kinney County Courthouse Human inhabitation of Kinney County began thousands of years ago. Spanish expeditions through the area began in 1535 and ...

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3040 Las Moras Masonic Lodge Building NW corner Ann St. (W. 3rd St.) at Cook Alley, S of Kinney County Courthouse, on private property Built in 1878-1879 to serve as the first County-owned Courthouse for Kinney County. This structure served that purpose for thirty-two years. In 1911 ... 17807 Las Moras Spring 960 Fort Clark Road, closer to the Spring As the ninth largest springs in Texas and the largest springs in Kinney County, Las Moras Spring is significant due to its location and invaluable ...

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13643 Married Officers' Quarters 8-9 8 Colony Row This single-story duplex once served as housing for married officers and their families at Fort Clark. The U.S. Army fort, established in 1852 to ... 3377 Military Roads in Texas Highway 90 just east of Ft. Clark entrance, Brackettville The routes that moved troops in early Texas often followed old Indian trails, usually were little more than deep wagon ruts. This one, the Chihuahua ... 3440 Montalvo House building now fronts Thomas Street just east of where H crosses Ann Street (and Rt. 334), Brackettville (called "The Well") Yldefonso Montalvo (1855-1941), also known by the name Obed Woods, built this dwelling about 1887. He used cedar pickets, caliche plaster, and other ...

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15811 New Cavalry Barracks 123 McClernand Road NEW CAVALRY BARRACKS The earliest quarters for soldiers at Fort Clark were tents along Las Moras Creek near the spring. During the forts 1870s building ...

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16424 Officers' Club Open Mess 1 McClernand Rd. 13963 Officers Quarters 2-3 and 4 Fort Clark Springs, Colony Row, N side E of Patton Dr. These two buildings date from 1854-55, soon after the U.S. Army established Fort Clark. The antebellum fort then included officers quarters and barracks ... 3678 Officers' Row Quarters Colony ROW Road between Nos. 8, 9 and 10, Ft. Clark Springs, Brackettville Fort Clark was established as a U.S. Army garrison in 1852. The original quarters were crude log huts and houses of palisade construction. In 1857, ... 18 Old Guardhouse - Fort Clark LAT: 29' 18.08N LONG: 100' 24.56W INSIDE FORT: FRONTS PATTON ROAD AND FORT'S INTERIOR OPEN SPACE. ON EAST-SIDE OF COLONY ROW RD. --

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16041 Palisado Kitchen/Mess Room W side of intersection of Baylor St. and Lee Ct. This structure was built by the U. S. Army in 1869-70 and is an example of vertical post or jacal construction, used due to the absence of trees ... 15039 Partrick Building 114 North Street In 1885 Dr. William Partrick commissioned adjoining commercial spaces at this site, operating a drug store in the single story and a dry goods store ...

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4353 Ross Home located on Ann Street (Highway 334) directly across from Chamber of Commerce and Masonic Lodge, Brackettville --

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4638 Seminole Indian Scouts' Cemetery 90W - west end of Brackettville take 3348 south 3 miles to marker and cemetery (within Brackettville limits) (Founded on Fort Clark Reservation, Sept. 1, 1872) Burial site of heroic U.S. Army men, families, and heirs. These Seminoles came mainly from Florida ... 12933 Seminole Scout Camp on Fort Clark Brackettville vicinity, Local road, 2 mi. S of US 90 in Fort Clark Springs Seminole Scout Camp on Fort Clark Under Spanish rule, Florida was a haven for freed or escaped slaves in the 1700s. Once there, many integrated into ... 16860 Site of Original Post Cemetery Brackettville This ground was Fort Clark’s Military Cemetery from 1856 to the 1880s. One of the first burials was 2nd Lt. Brayton C. Ives, 1st inf., a West Point ... 5086 Staff Officers' Quarters Colony ROW between quarters Nos. 22 and 25, Ft. Clark Springs, Brackettville The U.S. Army built nine stone officers' quarters at Fort Clark beginning in 1873. The need soon arose for additional housing for senior staff officers, ...

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15094 U.S. Army Signal Corps Building 202 McClain Road This building served as the communications center for Fort Clark from 1932-1944. The Building is of tile brick construction with a veneer of irregular ...