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Fort Duncan Infantry Barracks

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Eagle Pass, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 23° 42' 8.98077999996", -100° 30' 20.0111500008"
 
    Texas State
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     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 Army abandoned the post. Six years later the city of Eagle Pass purchased it and leased the barracks to the local council of Boy Scouts. In 1939 the building became the Fort Duncan Country Club and remained as such except during World War II when it was also an officers club for the Eagle Pass Army Air Force Advanced Flying School. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Fort Duncan Infantry Barracks Historical Marker Location Map, Eagle Pass, Texas

 
   
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