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.