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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Maverick County, Texas
Adjacent to Maverick County, Texas
▶ Dimmit County (2) ▶ Kinney County (39) ▶ Uvalde County (33) ▶ Webb County (3) ▶ Zavala County (8)
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| On Main Street (State Highway 240) at Madison Street, on the right when traveling west on Main Street. |
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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 was "lifeblood of the South," Texas its lifeline and storehouse west of the . . . — — Map (db m111472) HM |
| On Del Rio Boulevard (U.S. 277) 0.1 miles north of Juanita Drive, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Although the Indian, Spanish, and early anglo-American inhabitants knew of this area's large bituminous coal deposits, commercial mining did not begin until 1885, when F. H. Hartz opened a hillside mine near the Rio Grande. For a time, it was the . . . — — Map (db m121588) HM |
| On South Adams Street at Bullis Street, on the left when traveling south on South Adams Street. |
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Established by Captain S. Burbank, first U.S. Infantry, March 27, 1849 as a protection to western communication. Garrisoned by Federal troops until March 20, 1861 and since 1868. Now known as Camp Eagle Pass — — Map (db m56146) HM |
| On Bliss Street at Shafter St, on the left when traveling east on Bliss Street. |
| | 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 Mexican War.
Fort served as frontier outpost near trail of California emigrants; base of . . . — — Map (db m56187) HM |
| On Bliss Street west of South Adams Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | 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 first military cross-country flight, from Fort McIntosh in Laredo, landed here in 1911. By 1932 the . . . — — Map (db m56151) HM |
| On Main Street (State Highway 240) at Madison Street, on the right when traveling west on Main Street. |
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Created Feb. 2, 1856, from Kinney county. Organized July 13, 1871. Named for Texas Revolution veteran, signer of declaration of Independence, Texas Legislator Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870). The county centers in an area of dairies, farming, . . . — — Map (db m111452) HM |
| On Main Street (State Highway 240) at Madison Street, on the right when traveling west on Main Street. |
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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 $800 toward purchase of land from R.E. Moffit.
Architects: Wahrenberger and Beckman, San . . . — — Map (db m111469) HM |
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