Marker Inscription
Politics/Government, Commerce
Historic Place
Mifflin Kenedy Warehouse & Old Starr County Courthouse
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About this site
Mifflin Kenedy Warehouse & Old Starr County Courthouse is a historic place in Rio Grande City, Starr County, dedicated in 2005. It is one of 6 historic places documented in Starr County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 134 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 26.3788, -98.8223 near Rio Grande City. The nearest cataloged historic site is Starr County Courthouse (1854) (courthouse), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Yzaguirre-Longoria House, Site of Cortina Battle, and Rio Grande City, C.S.A..
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2005000657. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Mifflin Kenedy Warehouse, a two-story brick building at Water and Texas streets in Rio Grande City, was built about 1850 and served as a distribution and holding center for the Rio Grande steamboat trade. From roughly 1874 until about 1885 it functioned as the Starr County Courthouse, and it later housed municipal offices and the municipal court. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Sources: hmdb.orgatlas.thc.texas.gov
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