Historical Marker
Robert E. Lee House
Historical marker location:
Lee Circle, Rio Grande City, Texas
( Rio Grande City C.I.S.D. campus off US 83. Also known as Commandant's House.)
Marker installed: 1965
Overlooked steamboat dock on Rio Grande, landscape of northern Mexico. Main rooms were walled with military maps of this locality. Used as field quarters by Col. Robert E. Lee, U.S. Army Commandant in Texas, 1860. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965.
Texas has been a major oil-producing state for over a century. The first big oil discovery in Texas was the Spindletop field near Beaumont in 1901, which set off a massive oil boom that transformed the state's economy and made Texas one of the wealthiest states in the country.