Fort Duncan Infantry Barracks

The air school that used this building as an officers' club stood ten miles north of Eagle Pass. Eagle Pass Army Air Field was activated in 1942 as an advanced single-engine flying school, became a basic flying school in November 1944, and ended all flight training in April 1945. In 1942 the mayor had offered the old fort to the military, which used the country club for officers and the swimming pool for commissioned men from the field. During the Eisenhower administration an early-warning radar station was built on the site; the county later used it for housing.

What the plaque says

Fort Duncan Infantry Barracks Built about 1868, soon after the U.S. Army's post-Civil War reoccupation of Fort Duncan, this building played a part in aviation history when the first military cross-country flight, from Fort McIntosh in Laredo, landed here in 1911. By 1932 the Army 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 was also an officers club for the Eagle Pass Army Air Force Advanced Flying School. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Duncan Museum — steps away
  The 1849 river post at Eagle Pass, where the first Black Seminole scouts enlisted in 1870, kept by the city as a park with its old headquarters as a museum.

More markers nearby

• Fort Duncan — steps away
• Fort Duncan — steps away
• Camp Rabb and Fort Duncan, C.S.A. — 0.3 mi
• California Camp — 0.4 mi