Today, it is the Army’s second-largest installation behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Range. Fort Bliss National Cemetery is also located on the post. Other buildings of interest at the modern post include the old brick mess hall, remodeled and now serving as the post exchange 14 sets of officers’ quarters, still in use and 2 original barracks buildings, on either side of the old mess hall, housing administrative offices. At modern Fort Bliss (1893-present), on the northeastern edge of the city, is an adobe replica of the Magoffinsville fort, donated by the El Paso Chamber of Commerce.

80 overpass and Doniphan Street, are several officers’ quarters, now used as apartments, and an adobe barracks. At the Hart’s Mill site (1878-93), on the western edge of El Paso at the intersection of the U.S. One of the largest privatized military housing companies, which manages houses at Fort Bliss, will pay more than 65 million in fines and restitution after. Nothing has survived of the first three posts (Smith’s Ranch, Magoffinsville, and Concordia Ranch). Activities at the fort peaked in World Wars I and II, and it is now the Army Air Defense Center. But the troops spent even more time controlling local lawless elements and arbitrating border conflicts. The troops participated in various Apache campaigns in Texas and New Mexico in 1857, and in the 1870s and 1880s. authority in the area after acquisition in the War with Mexico (1846-48), to defend the El Paso area from Indian depredations, and to protect the Southern Transcontinental Trail to California. The fort was founded across the Rio Grande from El Paso del Norte (Ciudad Juarez), Mexico, to establish and maintain U.S. The fort is named for Mexican-American War soldier William Wallace Smith Bliss. It was initially called the Post of El Paso and Post at Smith’s Ranch when it was located at Smith’s Ranch from 1849-51 Fort Bliss, at Magoffinsville (1854-68), including Confederate occupation in 1861-62 Camp Concordia and Fort Bliss, at Concordia Ranch (1868-77) and Fort Bliss, at Hart’s Mill and the current location (1878-present). Over the years the post has had almost as many different names as it has locations. Since its creation, the post has been located at five different locations, all in the city limits of El Paso except the present one. Still an active post today, Fort Bliss, Texas was first established in 1848. Fort Bliss, 7th Cavalry Barracks, El Paso, Texas

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