Resurgence It may sound strange, but sometimes it’s conflict that brings economic resources to a region. Such was the case during the U.S. Civil War, when the Confederacy transported southern cotton through Brownsville to Matamoros in order to avoid the Union blockade. Merchants and others profited and prospered from that commerce. After the war, however, […]
The Campaign for the Fort Brown Memorial Center U.S. Army troops left Fort Brown for the last time in 1944, when the 124th Cavalry, one of the last horse cavalry units, departed for World War II action in Burma. At the end of the war military officials concluded that there was no longer a need
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Commissary and Guardhouse The (Fort Brown) Commissary and Guardhouse was constructed in 1904, in part as a replacement for the original fort guardhouse. Iron bars were placed in the windows to keep out thieves. The main floor contained a guardroom and offices as well as a gun rack room and cell room. (From this location
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Fort Brown Post Hospital The most prominent building of the post-Civil War reconstruction of Fort Brown was the Post Hospital. It was built in 1868 (completed in 1871) under the supervision of Captain William A. Wainwright, but the architectural features are generally credited to Samuel W. Brooks, the foremost architect, builder, and engineer of Brownsville
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