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| [[Category:Texas Forts]]
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| [[Image:FortRinggoldLeeBldg.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Restored Lee House at Fort Ringgold]]
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| '''Fort Ringgold (1848-1861) (1865-1906) (1917-1944)''' - Established on 26 Oct 1848 by two companies of the [[1st U.S. Infantry]] led by Bvt. Maj. [[Joseph H. LaMotte]]. Known as Camp Ringgold and Ringgold Barracks before being named Fort Ringgold in 1878. Named after Bvt. Maj. [[Samuel Ringgold]] who was the first U.S. Army Officer to die from wounds received in the battle of Palo Alto (8 May 1846) during the [[Mexican War]].
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| The fort was occupied from 1848 until the [[U.S. Civil War]] began in 1861; from 1865 until 1906; and from 1917 to 1944. The U.S. Army declared the fort surplus and disposed of the property in 1944.
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| The Rio Grande Consolidated ISD purchased the fort property in 1949. Since 1988 the district maintained the standing buildings, the best known is the Lee House, where [[Robert E. Lee]] resided in 1860. The fort was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
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| '''Location:''' Rio Grande City School grounds, 1/4 mi. SE of jct. of US 83 and TX 755, Rio Grande City, Starr County, Texas
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| '''Links:'''
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| * [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/FF/qbf42.html Texas Handbook]
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| '''Publications:'''
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| * Simmons, Thomas E., ''Fort Ringgold: A Brief Tour'', University of Texas Pan-American, Edinburg, Texas, ISBN 0-938738-09-7
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| '''Visited:''' No
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