Image: A portion of Fort Leaton, a Texas State Historic Site, on the edge of Presidio, along the Rio Grande River in Brewster County, Texas LCCN2014630294

Description: Title: A portion of Fort Leaton, a Texas State Historic Site, on the edge of Presidio, along the Rio Grande River in Brewster County, Texas Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; The adobe structure, which now serves as the western-side visitor center for BIg Bend Ranch State Park, was built in the 1830s and purchased by a prominent Anglo-American landholder, Ben Leaton, who expanded it into fortress dimensions and made it his home. What came to be called "Fort Leaton," though, contrary to erroneous local lore, it was never a Spanish fortification, was also Presidio County's first seat of government.; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Title: A portion of Fort Leaton, a Texas State Historic Site, on the edge of Presidio, along the Rio Grande River in Brewster County, Texas LCCN2014630294
Credit: Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2014630294 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/26000/26094a.tif Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.26094
Author: Carol M. Highsmith
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