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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UTO_pershing-circle-historical_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
Pershing Circle was built as part of the 1930s expansion of Fort Bliss. It was designed to contain four buildings: a post theater, chapel post exchange, and division headquarters; however, the chapel and theater (now Sage Hall) were the only build…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UTN_hammett-house-historical_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
These quarters are named for Chief Warrant Officer Robert C. (Charlie) Hammett (1969-2008). A native of Tucson, Arizona, CW3 Hammett enlisted in the Army in 1990. He was subsequently selected as a Command and Control Systems Warrant Officer. Durin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UTL_second-expansion-period-group-historical_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
These warehouses were built for the Eighth Quartermaster Corps in 1921 as a supply depot for Army outposts and units away from Fort Bliss. Unrest related to the Mexican Revolution (1910-1921) led to the establishment of a string of border outposts…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UTF_the-howze-house-historical_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
These quarters are named for Major General Robert L. Howze (1864-1926), Commanding General, El Paso Military District and 1st Cavalry Division. During World War I, he commanded the 38th Division and later the 3rd Division. In 1919 General Howze as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1URY_wilson-park-historical_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
Captain John Stanton Wilson was born 11 January 1941 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was commissioned through the New Mexico National Guad in 1965, and called to active duty in February 1966. Severely wounded during his first tour in Vietnam, he ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RXV_building-1355_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
Building 1355 was one of two granaries built in 1919 for the storage and distribution of oats to feed horses and mules of Army units station from Douglas, Arizona to the Texas Big Bend.
Buildings 1355 and 1361 were a part of Forage Yard No. 1, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RXU_mexican-war-refugee-camp_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
On November 5, 1913, Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces attacked Chihuahua City, Mexico. Mexican Federal Administrators, Mexican Army troops and their families, and many other refugees evacuated the city. They traveled east to Ojinaga via train a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RXT_polk-house_El-Paso-TX.html
These quarters are dedicated to GEN James Hilliard Polk (1911-1992). As newlyweds, LT and Mrs. Polk lived here in the late 1930s, when he served with the 8th Cavalry Regiment. During World War II, he commanded 3rd Cavalry Group as it spearheaded a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RXR_abrams-house_El-Paso-TX.html
These Quarters are dedicated to GEN Creighton Williams Abrams, Jr. (1914-1974). LT and Mrs. Abrams lived here in the late 1930s, when he was with the 1st Cavalry Division. He later served in World War II, when he commanded the 37th Tank Battalion …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RXQ_hinman-hall_El-Paso-TX.html
Hinman Hall, named for Brigadier General Dale Durkee Hinman who commanded the Antiaircraft Artillery Training Center at Fort Bliss in 1943, was the administrative headquarters for the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School for over 50 years. It wa…