Fort Duncan Infantry Barracks

Built about 1868, soon after the U.S. Army's post-Civil War reoccupation of Fort Duncan, the infantry barracks became part of aviation history in 1911 when the first military cross-country flight, from Fort McIntosh in Laredo, landed there. By 1932 the Army had abandoned the post. Six years later the city of Eagle Pass purchased it and leased the barracks to the local council of Boy Scouts. In 1939 the building became the Fort Duncan Country Club and remained as such except during World War II, when it also served as an officers club for the Eagle Pass Army Air Force Advanced Flying School.

Eagle Pass, Texas · United States