Fort Brown National Historic Landmark Nomination (Updated Documentation)
Reed P and Wallace E. 2024. Fort Brown National Historic Landmark Nomination (Updated Documentation). National Historic Landmark Nominations. 66000811_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is updated National Historic Landmark (NHL) documentation for the Fort Brown National Historic Landmark in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas. The updated NHL documentation for Fort Brown documents its national significance under NHL Criterion 1 for the central and evolving military role that it played over the course of its operation. The fort was critical in the opening battles of the US-Mexican War or Mexican American War (1846-1848), contested during the US Civil War (1861-1865), and a guardian of the US border in the period from the First Cortina War (1859) to the violence of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917). Border conflicts between 1846 and 1917 highlight Fort Brown as significant in the area of American Latino ethnic heritage. Fort Brown served in the redefinition of the south Texas border in 1846, maintaining regional influence as a border sentinel into the early twentieth century and thus linking it to American Latino cultural experience and identity formation.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Reed, Paula S.; Wallace, Edith B.
- Date of Issue
- 2024-09-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- Border, Brownsville, Brownsville Affair, First Cortina War, Latino, Mexican Revolution, National Historic Landmark, Texas, US Civil War, US-Mexican War