File:Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX HABS TEX,15-SANT,39- (sheet 1 of 3).tif

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HABS TEX,15-SANT,39- (sheet 1 of 3) - Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
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HABS TEX,15-SANT,39- (sheet 1 of 3) - Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Depicted place Texas; Bexar County; San Antonio
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS TEX,15-SANT,39- (sheet 1 of 3)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Fort Sam Houston was founded in 1876 as the new location for the San Antonio quartermaster depot which had previously been situated several miles to the south along San Antonio River. The first mission which protected the Texas frontier. From the beginning, the new depot was known as the headquarters of the department of Texas which moved its operations there before construction was completed. In later years, as the Army sought to reduce the number of small garrison posts scattered throughout western Texas, the depot was expanded to serve as a large centrally located garrison post for both infantry and cavalry...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-183
  • Survey number: HABS TX-3303
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