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Before the Chamizal Treaty of 1963, this site stood on Cordova Island, a Mexican parcel completely surrounded by the United States and effectively a Mexican island looking into the United States. Mexico gave this land to the U.S. in exchange for land to the west. Cordova Island's original international boundary was defined by evenly spaced cement fence posts and cast iron markers, including a 600-pound marker that was one of nineteen identifying the Mexico border around the island.
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