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Robert E. Lee House

Rio Grande City · Starr County · placed 1965 · Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

Civil War

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Starr County, Texas

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Overlooked steamboat dock on Rio Grande, landscape of northern Mexico. Main rooms were walled with military maps of this locality. Used as field quarters by Col.

Robert E. Lee, U.S. Army Commandant in Texas, 1860.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965

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