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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RXO_quarters-213-chaparral-house_El-Paso-TX.html
These quarters are named in honor of both the Chaparral bird (or "Roadrunner"), native to the desert southwest, and the Chaparral Air Defense Missile System. This weapon is a highly mobile, heat-seeking short range missile, effective against all t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RXM_william-wallace-smith-bliss-monument_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
North face: Buena Vista W. W. S. Bliss Lt. Col. U S Army Born at Whitehall, N. Y. August 17, 1815 Died at Pascagoula, Mississippi August 5, 1853 West face: Monterey Admitted a Cadet at West Point 1829 Promoted Bvt. 2d LT 4th Infy July…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ROE_building-1372_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
This Wagon Scales Building was built in 1918 with a weighing platform on its south side. The building was part of Forage Yard No. 1, which provisioned cavalry horses from 1919 until 1943. Two granaries, a small stone latrine and eleven open hayshe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ROC_historical-building-241-the-guardhouse-1893_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
Captain George Ruhlen designed a series of buildings along a central parade field for the newly appointed Fort Bliss at Lanoria Mesa. Building 241 originally served as the guardhouse for Fort Bliss and is a contributing element of the Fort Bliss H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RNZ_buffalo-soldier-memorial-of-el-paso_El-Paso-TX.html
"The Errand of Corporal Ross" While on Campaign in the Guadalupe Mountains, Corporal John Ross of I Troop, 9th Calvary, was tasked to take a back trail and bring up the supply wagons that had lagged behind. Enroute to picking up the wagons, CPL R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RNS_an-almost-forgotten-history_El-Paso-TX.html
Just one year after the Civil War, Congress passed an act which created two "experimental" cavalry regiments for service on the western frontiers. African Americans, most of whom had only recently been slaves, put on blue uniforms and filled the r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LHW_old-county-jail_San-Elizario-TX.html
This structure was built about 1850 of adobe bricks (sundried mud and reeds) and cottonwood logs around steel cell blocks. It served as official county jail 1850-66 and 1868-73, when San Elizario was the first and then third El Paso County seat. I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AJD_fort-bliss-c-s-a_Fort-Bliss-TX.html
Surrendered with property and $20,000 to Texas Confederates on March 21, 1861. From old fort, the South launched the New Mexico-Arizona campaign. Later, Confederates abandoned and destroyed most of fort and equipment, except for hospital and medic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AJC_site-of-camp-concordia-and-fort-bliss_El-Paso-TX.html
When the U.S. Army returned to this area after the Civil War, conditions proved undesirable at the prewar post, Fort Bliss at Magoffinsville. In 1868 the garrison moved to this location, then part of the Concordia Ranch. The new post was named Cam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AJB_fort-bliss-at-lanoria-mesa_El-Paso-TX.html
In 1849, U.S. troops led by Maj. Jefferson Van Horne established a post in what is now downtown El Paso to secure territory gained in the U.S.-Mexico War, 1846-48. It moved several times: to Magoffinsville in 1854; to Camp Concordia in 1868; back …
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