Fort Inge Days

We welcome volunteers to help.  If you are interested in helping, please call Bill Dillahunty for more details:  830-278-2016

Fort Inge Day (for school children only):
Friday, April 9, 2010
Fort Inge Day (for the general public):
Saturday, April 10, 2010
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Living History Re-Enactments
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Twilight Serenade 

Fort Inge Historical Park 

For a map, directions, park hours, and more information about the Fort Inge Historical Park, click the following links:

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 Fort Inge

Fort Inge was a frontier fort in Uvalde County, Texas (USA) established as Camp Leona on March 13, 1849. The fort served as a base for troops assigned to protect the southern overland mail route from indian raids. The camp was renamed Fort Inge in honor of Lieutenant Zebulon M. P. Inge a West Point officer killed in the Mexican–American War.

There were two wooden barracks with thatched roofs that quartered the soldiers assigned to the fort. There was also a large limestone building that served as commissary and later a hospital. The fort was surrounded on three sides by a stacked stone wall added sometime around the Civil War. The wall was dismantled in 1874 and the stone used to build a dam on the Leona River. The wall was relaid along its original lines in 1984.

Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II was posted to Fort Inge in the early 1850s, and his letters from there are preserved by the Maryland Historical Society.

The United States Army garrisoned the fort until March 19, 1869, when the garrison was transferred to Fort McKavett. The army recovered materials from the site to use for additions to nearby Fort Clark. Fort Inge then saw use as a camp by the Texas Rangers until 1884.

 In 1961, the site became the Fort Inge Historical Site County Park. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1985.[1] The site is located on the Leona River and is dominated by the 140-foot (43 m) high remains of an extinct volcano named Mount Inge.

Fort Inge Archeological Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The site of Fort Inge with Mount Inge in the background.
Location:	Uvalde County, Texas<, USA
Nearest city:	Uvalde
Coordinates:	29°10′45″N 99°45′57″W / 29.17917°N 99.76583°W / 29.17917; -99.76583
Built/Founded:	1849
Governing body:	Uvalde County
Added to NRHP :	September 12 , 1985
NRHP Reference#:	85002298

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Contact Information:
Uvalde Historical Commission, INC.
PO BOX 5383
Uvalde, TX 78801
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