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629 California Camp Commercial St., E side between Ford and Main streets After founding of Fort Duncan (2.5 blocks south) in 1849, this site was a camp ground and staging area for California emigrants. These were forty-niners ... 672 Camp Rabb and Fort Duncan, C.S.A. in front of Chamber of Commerce - Garrison St. near bridges to Mexico, Eagle Pass Camp Rabb, 15 miles northeast, was one of 18 Confederate outposts placed a day's horseback ride apart, from Red River to Rio Grande, to prevent Indian ... 18192 Chittim Ranch 17 miles east of Eagle Pass, 17 miles west of Carrizo Springs, just outisde the gate of the Catclaw Ranch Born in Missouri in 1858, James Madison Chittim worked as a cowboy as far west as Kansas as a teenager. He began to buy, sell and train horses, then ... 862 Church of the Redeemer 648 Madison Street Chaplains at Fort Duncan held the earliest Episcopal services in Eagle Pass in the 1850s. The Rt. Rev. R. W. B. Elliott, first bishop of the Missionary ...

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1148 Deadman's Hill There is road construction along 57 that lasts at least 15 miles north from Eagle Pass A knoll by which the old Uvalde road passed. Hill acquired name in 1877 when three traders from Guerrero, bound for San Antonio, were killed here ... 18547 Dos Chimeneas Ranch House 17703-18509 U.S. Highway 277 On February 9, 1888, James Madison Chittim (1858-1911) married Annie Elizabeth Oberle (1868-1938). Chittim began purchasing property in 1895 and ...

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1327 Eagle Pass Coal Mines Del Rio Blvd (US 277), north of FM 1589, west side of the road Although the Indian, Spanish, and early anglo-American inhabitants knew of this area's large bituminous coal deposits, commercial mining did not ... 1328 Eagle Pass Post Office 589 Main Street The first Eagle Pass Post Office opened in 1849, the same year Fort Duncan was established. The post office changed locations several times before ... 1326 Eagle Pass, C.S.A. Courthouse lawn - Main Street Eagle Pass A major terminus of the Cotton Road, customhouse and Confederate port of entry into Mexico 1863-65 when Union forces held lower Rio Grande. Cotton ...

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1979 Fort Duncan Fort Duncan Park, S. Adams St. S of Garrison St. Established by Captain S. Burbank, First U. S. Infantry, March 27, 1849 as a protection to Western communication. Garrisoned by federal troops until ... 14217 Fort Duncan Fort Duncan Park, Bliss St. in front of Fort Duncan Museum Established March 27, 1849, by Capt. Sidney Burbank with Companies A, B, and F, First U.S. Infantry. Name honors Col. James Duncan, a hero of the ... 1980 Fort Duncan Infantry Barracks at end of Bliss Street, Ft. Duncan, Eagle Pass Built about 1868, soon after the U.S. Army's post-Civil War reoccupation of Fort Duncan, this building played a part in aviation history when the ...

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2750 Jesse Sumpter in Catholic cemetery at north end of Memorial Drive enter - go left and pass utility shed, make second left on dirt road - go to end. Where it loops back (at end) is where marker and grave are located under Mesquite tree, Eagle Pass Pioneer citizen, soldier, and law officer. Served in D Co., 1st infantry on Texas Frontier, 1848-1852. Among first troops to be stationed at Fort ...

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3260 Maverick County Courthouse grounds, Eagle Pass Created Feb. 2, 1856, from Kinney county. Organized July 13, 1871. Named for Texas Revolution veteran, signer of declaration of Independence, Texas ... 16069 Maverick County 3.3 mi. E. of Eagle Pass, on State Hwy 85 Maverick County, created February 2, 1856, organized July 13, 1871. Named in honor of Samuel Augustus Maverick, 1803-1870. At the storming of Bexar, ... 3261 Maverick County Courthouse Courthouse lawn A landmark of the Texas-Mexico border area. Built 1884-85, during term of county Judge Thomas Lamb, on site chosen by citizens' committee, who donated ...

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4402 S. P. Simpson, Jr., House 597 Ceylon Street (door reads 597 at bottom, but 419 at top) Built by Samuel Pruit Simpson, Jr. (1871-1924), pioneer banker and civic leader who came to Eagle Pass from Lexington, KY., in 1883. Beginning 1889, ... 4667 Shelby's Flag Burial U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Eagle Pass Port of Entry. S side of E. Garrison St. on restricted property. The last flag to fly over an organized Confederate force was buried in the river near this spot on July 4, 1865, by Gen. Jos. O. Shelby, of Missouri. ...

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5370 The Lee Building Fort Duncan Museum, in Fort Duncan Park, NW corner Bliss and Shafter streets. Marker reported missing Jan. 2011. Constructed before 1875, as quarters for ordnance sergeant. Leased in 1948 by Maverick County Historical Society under leadership of Mmes. C. O. ...