Marker Inscription
Politics/Government
Historic Place
Chamizal National Memorial
The landmarks the nation chose to remember.
About this site
Chamizal National Memorial is a historic place in El Paso, El Paso County, dedicated in 1974. It is one of 27 historic places documented in El Paso County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 140 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.7679, -106.4541 near El Paso. The nearest cataloged historic site is Guardian Angel Church (historical marker), about 0.5 miles away. Others within a short drive include Franklin Canal, Site of the First Fort Bliss, and Camp Concordia and Fort Bliss, Site of.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2074002069. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Chamizal National Memorial in El Paso commemorates the 1963 Chamizal treaty that peacefully ended a century-old boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico. The conflict arose because the Rio Grande, set as the border by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, shifted its course over time, leaving a tract of land known as El Chamizal in dispute. Under the settlement, the river was relocated into a concrete channel and land was exchanged, and part of the resulting parcel became this National Park Service memorial, which today serves as a cultural center with galleries and a theater.
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Camp Concordia and Fort Bliss, Site of
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El Paso · 1936
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Concordia Cemetery
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Henry O. Flipper
El Paso · 2002
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Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon
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Victoriano Huerta
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