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Officers Quarters 2-3 and 4

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Texas, Kinney County, near Brackettville
These two buildings date from 1854-55, soon after the U.S. Army established Fort Clark. The antebellum fort then included officers quarters and barracks for enlisted men, as well as a two-story quartermaster storehouse, powder magazine, hospital, guardhouse and post headquarters around a parade ground. During this period, such notable army officers as John Bell Hood, J.E.B. Stuart, Fitzhugh Lee and James Longstreet served here and likely lived in these quarters. Horizontal logs and vertical posts were notched and interlocked to create these buildings. Limestone chimneys are also historic. The army closed the fort in 1944, by which time the buildings were clad in lath and plaster and wood siding.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2007
(plaque)
Ante-bellum Officers' Quarters Log Construction c.1854
has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United Sates Department of the Interior 1979

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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