Maverick County

Maverick County is home to the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas. The Kickapoos long camped near the international bridge between Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras, but they held no land in Texas until Public Law 97-429, signed on January 8, 1983, granted them land near El Indio and recognized them for federal purposes. In the Handbook of Texas's account, many families spent much of the year at El Nacimiento in Coahuila, about 130 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, keeping a traditional ceremonial and seasonal life alongside migrant farm work across the West.

What the plaque says

Maverick County Created Feb. 2, 1856, from Kinney county. Organized July 13, 1871. Named for Texas Revolution veteran, signer of declaration of Independence, Texas Legislator Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870). The county centers in an area of dairies, farming, ranching. Hard-travelled El Camino Real (path into Texas History for Louis St. Denis, Spanish Missionaries, Moses Austin and countless troops and settlers) crossed the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, the county seat. Site of Spanish Mission ruins, military posts. Fort Duncan, now a military park, housed both U.S. and confederate troops. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Duncan Museum — 0.4 mi
  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

• Eagle Pass, C.S.A. — steps away
• Camp Rabb and Fort Duncan, C.S.A. — 0.2 mi
• California Camp — 0.3 mi
• Fort Duncan — 0.4 mi